El Paso

El Paso is inspired by the true story of a Roma widow and mother of nine children. The Horváth family in the film has seven children. This tale begins with the tragic, unexpected death of their father, which leaves their mother Věra alone in a battle against the authorities. She is determined to keep her large family together at any cost, but she is hopelessly unprepared for the task that faces her. Social services apply for a court order for her children to be taken away from her and placed in institutional care. From one day to the next, they are shunted to peripheral social housing with just one room. The case between Věra and the city authorities is taken on by an ambitious young lawyer, who doesn't know anything about Roma culture and is not too interested anyway. She sees the case a stepping stone for her burgeoning career. After the success of his film Brats director Zdeněk Tyc returns to the world of the Roma, which generally makes us fearful and uneasy despite the fact that we actually know nothing about it.