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A significant component of the documentary involved covertly filming smuggling routes and operations. The team infiltrated areas controlled by traffickers, observing the buying and selling of essential supplies like tents, hiking boots, and snake-repelling powders. They also interviewed smugglers, who detailed how they charge thousands of dollars for safe passage across treacherous routes, such as via smuggling boats in Panama.

Their encounters shed light on the organized, lucrative nature of migrant trafficking—an economy built on the desperation of those fleeing conflict, poverty, and political instability. The team documented the tactics used by smugglers to evade authorities, the precautions taken by migrants, and the constant cat-and-mouse game along the borderlands.