- A dead body, a pair of Latino immigrants and a fisherman and his son, neither of whom understand each other's languages, come together in a tense tale of escalating incomprehension, violence and tragedy.
- CARLOS and RAMON, two Latino immigrants, are fishing on a lake. Carlos goes off to the woods to relieve himself and stumbles upon a corpse. The dead man has been shot. Carlos suggests that they go to the police, but Ramon insists that they'd be blamed or discovered to be illegals.Suddenly they hear some voices and freeze. MITCH REYNOLDS, a beefy middle-aged man and his 10-year-old son EDDIE, have come to the lake for some fishing. Mitch sets up their poles while Eddie wanders toward the woods. When the dead man's cell phone begins ringing, the boy spots the three men and runs off to tell his father. Carlos and Ramon attempt to flee, but Carlos trips over a tree root and falls. Mitch appears on the scene and demands an explanation. Neither Latino speaks English and Mitch and his son know no Spanish. When Ramon tries to explain that they are innocent men and that he, too, has a young son, Mitch takes his gestures as a threat to Eddie and slices the man's wrist with a scaling knife. Ramon leaps on Mitch and in the ensuing fight is killed. Mitch tells Eddie to return to the car and explains to an uncomprehending Carlos that he, Mitch, has a criminal record and has no intention of going back to prison. He begins squeezing Carlos' throat. Eddie, crouching by the bushes hears Carlos' pleas for mercy: "por favor..." In a postscript we learn that he Huntsman Lake murders were never solved, that Mitch had a stroke three years later and has not worked since. His son eventually became a Spanish teacher. The two don't talk.
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