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Synopsis

Sleep Dealer is set in a corporation-controlled, militarized near future where the United States has successfully closed its borders. Finally. Through American technology we have developed a capacity, a digital network, to have all the work with none of the workers constructing our buildings, picking our fruit, manning our planes. There are no water shortages.

Memo Cruz lives with his parents and his brother in the small, dusty village of Santa Ana del Rio, in Mexico. Santa Ana is an isolated farming community, the kind of place that seems frozen in time -- except for the hi-tech, militarized dam that was built by a corporation, and now controls Santa Ana's water supply. Memo couldn't care less about Santa Ana. He loves technology, and dreams of leaving his small pueblo and finding work in the hi-tech factories in the big cities in the north. But for now, Memo is trapped in Santa Ana del Rio.

One night, while using his homemade radio, Memo stumbles across something he's never heard before -- the communications of the security forces that are constantly patrolling the area around his village, to protect the dam from "Aqua-Terrorists." Unknown to him, or his family, Memo is now under the crosshairs. Security agents at the water company's headquarters in the United States, have spotted Memo's radio intercept, and conclude that it's a threat. Memo is then forced to realize his dream of leaving Santa Ana in the worst possible way when his homemade radio -- and his house -- are destroyed in a reckless remote-control bombing.

Driven by feelings of guilt, and a need to earn money, Memo leaves his family and his pueblo to go north, find work, and help his family start again. He heads to the massive border city of Tijuana. On the way, Memo meets a young woman, sharp and beautiful, named Luz, an aspiring journalist who dreams of writing a story that might one day change the world.

A strange and complex relationship is set in motion between Memo and Luz that will change their lives -- maybe even change the world -- forever.

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Weekend Chart Record

Date	Rank		Gross	% Change	Theaters	Per Theater	Total Gross	Days
4/17/2009	49		$35,050		18	$1,947	$35,050	3
4/24/2009	68		$7,962	-77.28%	7	$1,137	$53,141	10
5/15/2009	99		$1,399		2	$700	$59,183	31
6/5/2009	92		$1,648		3	$549	$62,552	52
6/12/2009	98		$2,099	+27.37%	2	$1,050	$65,575	59
6/19/2009	72		$6,108	+191.00%	9	$679	$75,727	66