In the new film The Visitor, an unsuspecting college professor named Walter Vale is thrust into the middle of a modern-day immigrant story. Within days of befriending a young immigrant couple, he is forced to grapple with the harsh realities immigrants face in the United States today, and how unjust immigration laws affect all Americans.

The film opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles this week and in Chicago and other cities on April 18, and a TakePart.com campaign is in the works to use the film as an education and action tool (stay tuned for more information as the planning for that comes together).

Meanwhile, check out the trailer and start inviting your friends and family to see the movie when it's out-it's a great opportunity to talk about why humane immigration reform is needed and why all Americans' lives depend on it.