Filmmaker Chema Rodriguez has a soft spot for the prostitutes plying their trade in La Línea, Guatemala. Angered by the injustices committed against them on an almost daily basis, these prostitutes form their own soccer team and make it all the way onto the evening news, if not into the hearts of the nation's people. Rodriguez doesn't illuminate the horrors these women suffer at the hands of customers, lovers and police, or elaborate on the hypocrisy that has Las Estrellas eliminated from one soccer league, but she evinces great compassion for her subjects by allowing them to reminisce about the cruel pasts that clearly motivated their decisions to sell their bodies. These women are terrible soccer players, but their persistence is something remarkable. Take their team captain, for example, a gay man who, after being thrown out of his house by his parents, managed to finish high school by prostituting himself. He says, "I graduated with pure force between sodomies." It may not be the most appropriate catch phrase for people wanting to let their freak flag fly, but it gets to the essence of these underdogs' fierce persistence.  Ed Gonzalez