Mexican citizens working in the United States and Canada can face difficult conditions even when they are employed legally. Filmed over an entire growing season, El Contrato documents the experiences of Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from central Mexico, and several of his countrymen who have contracted to work in a sprawling tomato greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario. An uncompromising look at the migrant worker's plight.

Production credits from container and other sources. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.