The Inheritors

Eugenio Polgovsky's unvarnished portrait of the rural poor in modern-day Mexico.

What you remember most are the children, many of them barely past toddler age, herding animals, gathering wood and slogging buckets of vegetables picked from sunburnt fields.

Unadulterated labor is the focus of this blistering, beautifully modulated documentary from Mexican auteur Eugenio Polgovsky.

Reveals the brutal exploitation that makes year-round tomatoes available at your local Gristede's.