Gabacho: Drugs Landed Me In Mexican Prison Theater Saved Me

Gabacho is the true tale of youthful angst crime misunderstandings love friendship and redemption. Over Christmas break of his senior year a University of Utah theatre student disenchanted with his conservative Mormon upbringing took off for Mexico with a college friend seeking a wild adventure. If the adventure hadnt included smuggling drugs it might have been another college road trip. But after a disastrous encounter with a drug cartel they ended up being arrested by Mexican Federales while trying to make it to the US border. Jewkes and friend are tossed into a Mexican prison where they find themselves anticipating torture rape and even death. A fight with a notorious killer struggles with tormenting guards and the difficulties of foreign prison lead to a disastrous escape attempt. To survive Jewkes starts a theatre group with a rag-tag bunch of Mexican convicts.