Review of Midnight Family

Painfully heartwarming story of a family struggling to survive as paramedics and a private ambulance service in a woefully inadequate emergency medical care system in today's Mexico City; a major metropolis having only 45 ambulances for a population of 9 million. The film is a ride along story that captures the good and the worst in people in a society that barely provides health care to the majority of it's people, and who are too poor to afford whatever care they can find. There are elements of hope that come through the storytelling of the young son who is the main driver of the worn rig. Touching though sad it is, the film left me wanting to send good wishes for luck and a break or two for this compelling family.