Ay Mariposa tells a narrative of three characters within the Decrease Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to construct a US-Mexico border wall. Because the director of the Nationwide Butterfly Heart, Marianna Trevino Wright has develop into a frontrunner of wall resistance within the Valley, a place that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions and an emotional odyssey as she tries to navigate the ever-shifting sands of border coverage. Zulema Hernandez, a life-long migrant employee, immigrant and nice grandmother, has been a devoted advocate for all migrants, each wild and human-kind. In the meantime the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its personal each day battle for survival in a panorama the place greater than 95 % of its habitat is lengthy gone and far of what stays lies instantly within the path of the wall. Ay Mariposa paperwork every characters' fierce dedication to residence, justice, wild magnificence and the way forward for the US-Mexico borderlands.