多米尼加首都圣多明各的基督王棚户区,同父异母的贾维尔和鲁迪兄弟在此生活,但关系不佳。海地人血统的贾维尔得到毒品帮派头目的垂青,在看护头目的妹妹乔斯琳。多米尼加血统的鲁迪曾是乔斯琳的男友,受不了贾维尔和乔斯琳的亲密关系,想重新夺回乔斯琳…… 《基督王》由多米尼亚共和国、海地和法国合拍,首映于2013年多伦多电影节当代世界电影单元。Set in the Dominican Republic, Leticia Tonos Paniagua's uniquely Caribbean retelling of Romeo and Julie chronicles the love between a kind-hearted teenager, ostracized for his mixed Haitian-Dominican descent, and the beautiful sister of a local drug kingpin he's hired to protect.