The vicious murder of a park ranger sparks an investigation into the illicit charcoal trade causing deforestation of the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic. As trees fall, national tensions rise in this gripping survival story.
The incredible rise to fame of 63-year-old aspiring soul singer Charles Bradley, whose debut album took him from a hard life in the Brooklyn Housing Projects to Rolling Stone Magazine's top 50 albums of 2011.
O filme conta a história do primeiro amor e primeiro desgosto de William (Aaron Webber), um energético jovem de 21 anos originário do Texas (o ‘estado mais quente’ do título) que vive em Nova Iorque e que aspira a ser ator. A fada, num momento, e bruxa, no outro, é Sarah (Catalina Sandino Moreno), uma garota emocionalmente retraída que deixou a sua mãe (Sonia Braga) para prosseguir uma carreira na música.
A poor girl, a rich stud, a university student and a model -- nothing in common, except the desire to experience true intimacy. Their stories unfold and overlap as each becomes victim to their own sexual dependencies, self-perceptions and illusions. Thematically structured around issues of femininity, masculinity, virginity, rape and sexuality, each teen struggles to make sense of their own identity, reaching for ideals that represent everything they feel they are supposed to be, but are not.
