Birds of Passage tells the story of a Wayuu man who rose up the ranks of drug trafficking in Colombia during the marijuana bonanza years in the 1960s, and what walking away from his culture to chase the wealth of the colonizers cost him. When Zaida (Natalia Reyes) comes of age, she marries Rapayet (José Acosta), who notices that marijuana is a way to provide for his new family. Along with his cousin Gabriel, Rapayet starts growing the flower and impresses some white American Peace Corps volunteers who propose that he starts exporting the drug. As Rapayet becomes wealthier, he also becomes more cruel, and abandons the beliefs and practices of the Wayuu people.
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