16mm, Hi-8 Video (DCP) 76 minutes.  
In Paraguay 2008
The filmmaker, his wife, and son travel to Paraguay to adopt a baby.  A meditation on
Paraguayan history and politics, US foreign policy, a toucan in a cage, and a little girl named Mariah.

Premiered Venice Film Festival

Directed, filmed, and edited by Ross McElwee (Currently out of distribution)



“A sympathetic, sensitive and sometimes delicately droll film.”
New York Times/International Herald Tribune