Biemann reveals life on the border as a set of total sexualisations. Nothing is natural in Ciudad Juarez, everything is under the dictate of the pancapitalistic machine. So you need the crossing of bodies to produce the discursive space of the nation state and also to produce a type of real place as a border. And this place is always represented as a dangerous place, which may lead to death, if you do not fit to its prohibitions. Since 1994 more than 140 women have been killed and buried in the desert.
Many girls are missing, many remain unidentified.
Sometimes they only find parts of clothing or single limbs or parts of the body, sometimes the clothing has been changed. We learn that the nameless murdered women are catalogued by the kind of wounds which led to their deaths and that the local corporations do not want to be named as their employers. Thus, the dead woman from the South becomes the pure metaphor of this wound which is always represented as an effect of this war zone. Some men take advantage of the dominant serial killing role model and kill the lover who doesnt suit them anymore. The economic war which dominates this region, is made over the bodies of poor women from the south and can therefore be endlessly naturalised and renewed.