When young gay drifter Veneno hitches a ride with lonesome, stoic trucker Muñeco, an unexpected, carnal bond emerges between the two along the dusty, desolate highways of northern Mexico. But the deeper they get into the dangerous, drug-fueled, hyper-masculine world of long-haul truckers, the greater the threat of their troubled pasts catching up with them becomes.

Sexually audacious and unapologetically brutal, On the Road deservedly won both the Queer Lion and the Horizons top prize at the Venice Film Festival this past fall. For his fifth feature film (and his second produced by Diego Luna), writer/director David Pablos (Dance of the 41) pairs professional actor and theatre veteran Osvaldo Sanchez (Pedro Páramo) opposite alluring newcomer Victor Prieto, making his acting debut here, with dazzling results. With their emotional urgency and boiling-hot chemistry, Sanchez and Prieto shared the Best Actor prize at the Morelia International Film Festival, which celebrates the best in Mexican cinema.