All They Will Call You

On January 22, 2015, Hernandez interviews Casimira Navarro López, the former girlfriend of Luis Miranda Cuevas, one of the men who died in the plane crash. He meets her at her house in Jocotepec, Jalisco, a town in central Mexico. She is 86 years old, but her memories of Luis and his death still make her emotional. She tells Hernandez that Luis was handsome, kind, and funny. As she tells her story, the narrative shifts from oral history to historical fiction mixed with narrative history.

In the fall of 1946, Luis Miranda Cuevas leaves Jocotepec after saying goodbye to his mother, Isabel. He walks a long way and then hitches a ride in a truck to Guadalajara. Like the other hitchhikers in the truck, he is going to the US for work. He has made this trip many times before. As he sits in the truck bed, he looks at the photograph of Casimira that he has taken with him. They have been dating for three years. He promised Casimira that he would take the safer route by train rather than try to cross the dangerous Rio Grande. He had also promised Casimira that when he returned, they would get married.