Gas Food Lodging
When Shade's good, she's very good. But when Trudi's bad, she's better.
3.2
Length101 mins
LanguageSpanish
Release Date1992-07-10
StatusReleased
Drama
Romance
Synopsis
Nora, a single mother raising two teenage daughters, Shade and Trudi, waits tables at a truck-stop diner in a small New Mexico town. The beautiful and rebellious Trudi drops out of school and gets a job alongside Nora, while the younger Shade whittles away her time at Spanish movie matinees. Their lives are turned upside down when Trudi becomes pregnant and the girls' absent father returns.