KINGDOM OF SHADOWS follows three people grappling with the hard choices and destructive consequences of the USMexico drug war Filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz weaves together the seemingly disconnected stories of an activist nun in deeply scarred Monterrey Mexico a US Federal agent on the border and a former Texas smuggler to reveal the human side of an oftenmisunderstood conflict that has resulted in the disappearance of more than 23000 people in Mexicoa growing human rights crisis that only recently has made international headlines