'Honor Roll Boys' (MiamisFF Review): A Bit of Harmless Fun
Initially feeling like a passionate group having a bit of harmless fun with filmmaking, it leads to something sinister enough to leave a mark.

Four women, sterilized and under constant toxic restraint and surveillance, serve their term in a government-run brothel. Their relations are at a critical point; food and water are scarce, their house is rotting and ready to collapse, nothing on the outside exists any more. Nightmarish visions, simulated miscarriages, injections and nausea comprise their daily routine. Yet their dream – although they have been sterilized by the State – is to have a child. One day, a customer disappears and the interrogation begins...
Initially feeling like a passionate group having a bit of harmless fun with filmmaking, it leads to something sinister enough to leave a mark.
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