As a result of extreme gang and police violence, El Salvador has the highest murder rate in the world. 16-year-old Mimi, a high school student and volunteer paramedic, faces one of the most difficult choices of her life: Should she stay and continue to risk her life to help others, or flee the country and head north in hopes of a brighter future?

Known as a "recruiter's paradise," Micronesia contributes a disproportionate number of soldiers to the armed forces, who cannot receive benefits...yet young men leave their families behind in pursuit of the American Dream.