“There are eight million stories in the naked city,” went the voiceover in Jules Dassin’s classic Big Apple-set film noir. Two such stories make up the crux of the documentary Five Years North, which follows a pair of New Yorkers who couldn’t be more incompatible, even if their lives are connected in larger, more meaningful ways.
On the one hand there’s Luis, an undocumented teen who’s come to the city to find a job and send money home to Guatemala. And on the other there’s Judy, an ICE officer with Cuban and Puerto Rican roots who patrols the very streets where Luis lives and works, rounding up immigrants for detention, and, possibly, deportation.
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