Too many times topics like immigration and trafficked people become words rather than faces and lose all meaning. Luckily there are some tenacious film makers out there who would rather bring them to life.

Director Rebecca Cammisa does exactly that in her film 'Which Way Home'. Her film is a sad and honest portrayal of desperation and the young children caught in the middle of the migration between Central America and the United States.

Plagued by poverty, the children of countries like Ecuador, Mexico and Honduras among others, leave home aged as young as nine to travel on their own to find family or at least a better life in the United States. Their parents don't stop their children because they have very little choice. Many are struggling just to get by.

The most heart-wrenching scene is of a young boy, who is nine-years-old and who has been caught by the Mexican Police. He is crying his eyes out. He has no idea what to do and as I watched it I just wanted to adopt him.

And while this could be a completely depressing film, luckily the children who have all have light in their eyes provide comfort. Even as they say they are unsure about their future they smile, they joke about finding food and the form friendships that will last the "beast". What is the beast? It's the freight train that will run from one border of Mexico to the border of the United States. While laws regulate the riding on the trains (yes on not in) there are thousands of people doing it every day so the Police are fighting a losing battle.

One of the more surreal moments is the meeting with some of the children riding the train with officers who help with medical conditions and letting the kids know how to escape the traffickers who often leave children like this dead in the desert.

It's a sad and vicious cycle these kids are stuck in and the worst part? They are all so intelligent (another reason why the film works) and yet they have nothing forming this intelligence into a future. All I can say: watch it.

'Which Way Home', Tradewinds Auditorium of the Bermuda Underwater Exploration Institute at 4 p.m. tomorrow.