My name is maria - ‘My Name Is Maria De Jesus’ Short Film Depicts Americanization of Mexicans in the U.S.

But around her, everything soon starts fallin.

When Ochoa screened the film in her hometown of San Antonio, family members shared stories they had never told her before.

Salazar pay didn't seem to go far enough to make ends meet at dinner that night the Salazar announced I'm going to look for a job tomorrow I'll try to be home when you children get home from school but here is a key to the door in case I'm not play Isabel's mother handed to rekey attached to a long pink ribbon come straight home from school and wait for me here don't leave the house and don't open the door anyone Maria Isabel strange the next day walking around with the pink ribbon around her neck and it wasn't that unusual something around her neck first it had been a pendant with the image of the Virgin Mary a baptism present from her godmother then she had worn cross that are Godfather had given her when she was 7 years old Maria Isabel was so used to wearing something around her neck that she forgot it was there that the different at times it made her feel important and grown-up Maria Isabel notice that some of the other girls also were key and she felt that they all had something in most of the day though the key just made her my name is maria sad was she finally got home and open the door all Maria Isabel found with her mother wasn't there and Tonio had stayed after school my name is maria band practice ever since he learned to play the drums and Tony was spent all his free time practicing the apartment felt like an empty box Maria Isabel sat down at the kitchen table you got a piece of paper and a pencil from her backpack and started to write Maria Isabel Salazar Lopez Maria Isabel Salazar Lopez Maria Isabel Salazar Lopez each time she wrote her name the letters got bigger and bigger until she reached the bottom of the page Maria Isabel crumpled the paper up into a ball at the garbage can that she missed she thought about how Antonio would tease her about her and if he were here and for a moment she was glad to be alone he got up put the crumpled page in the trash then she went to see what there was to eat in the kitchen cabinet Maria Isabel had set the table by the timer father got home from work what was almost ready a large bowl of salad sat in the center of the table while the rice and beans on the stovetop were ready to be served they only thing left to do was to cook neat mrs.