In the opening we see a crawl text (with narrator) that reads:
"In May of 1980, Fidel Castro in an effort to normalize relations with
the Carter Administration opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba with the
apparent intention of letting some of his people join their relatives
in the United States. Within seventy-two hours, 3,000 U.S. boats were
headed
for Cuba. In the next few weeks, it became evident that Castro was forcing
the boat owners to carry back with them not only their relatives but the
dregs of his jail population. By the time the port was closed 125,000
'Marielitos' had landed in Florida. An estimated 25,000 had criminal
records. This is the story of that minority those they call 'Los
Bandidos'."
