Borders have come center stage throughout the world. In the Big Bend region of Texas, this global story is unfolding in one of the most iconic American landscapes. This short film is part of a ongoing project following the Rio Grande as it winds through a remote stretch of far west Texas, through canyons in Big Bend and villages straddling both sides of the river, marking the southern border of the United States and the northern border of Mexico. Despite much talk of building a border wall, the only walls here were made by nature millions of years ago, and many of the villages along the river existed long before the U.S.-Mexican war that made the river a boundary. These works describe a place far different than depictions in the national media. Through deep time in this harsh desert, the river has been more a place of convergence— bringing people together rather than dividing them.