In Los Estados Unidos  three gauchos wrestle with deportation, the law and themselves on a quest to become “American.” The stubborn Don Ariel looks after his cousins, the soccer-obsessed Don Entorno and his brother the hotheaded Don Infante. Needing work visas, Don Ariel enlists the services of cowboy lawyer Billy, who realizes that due to a clerical error, Don Ariel has been granted an artist’s visa and must scramble to record an Argentine epic as a book on tape. The appearance of immigration agent Gazpacho brings to light truths—in English and in Spanish—about Billy and the gauchos. Written in an invented cowboy dialect the Gauchos Americanos reverses the rules of language to explore the hypocrisy at the heart of our borders.