Pulling Strings (better known in Spanish as Amor a primera visa) is a 2013 bilingual and Mexican-American romantic comedy film directed by Pitipol Ybarra and starring Laura Ramsey and Jaime Camil.

It is about a single father and struggling Mariachi singer who falls for a U.S. Embassy employee while seeking for a visa for his daughter.

In Mexico City, Alejandro Fernandez is a struggling Mariachi singer whose wife died two years prior.

After getting promoted in London, Art, her boss, entrusts her final duty: to take care of a laptop loaded with data, until he returns from the out-of-town business.

Alejandro locates it next to her clothing but hides it, and offers help on finding it with his comical best friend and band member, Carlos Nicanor "Canicas" Castro.

Throughout the next two days, he takes Rachel to the bar where her party was held, the embassy, a taxi cab company president, a black-market dealer and a computer repair shop.

Her father traveled across the world for his job, before he died away from his family, which made it difficult for Rachel to bond with other people and develop strong relationships.

In the morning, she finds Maria's stickers on the keyboard of the laptop and feels betrayed that Alejandro manipulated Rachel to obtain a visa.

As Rachel is getting ready to leave for London, Carol and Canicas help drive Alejandro to the airport to apologize and tell her that he loves her and attempts to persuade her to stay.

Jaime's Alejandro character has to help Rachel locate a missing computer and, in the interim, introduces her to a lively culture she never knew existed.

Ybarra, who is a Mexican native, had to learn to overcome a slight language barrier when instructing his American actors.