Plot

Julio, un niño triste y apocado, malvive en un ambiente miserable con unos padres alcohólicos y amargados. Una tarde, la madre del niño le envía a la carnicería para que compre comida a cuenta...

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Julio, a sad shy child lives a miserable existence with his embittered alcoholic parents. One afternoon, the boy’s mother sends him to the butcher’s to buy some meat on credit...

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Julito, a sad and shy child, lives poorly in a sordid surrounding with his alcoholic and disillusioned parents.

Their precarious economic situation force the parents to mutilate parts of their bodies, which they leave in exchange of some food in a butchery.

One afternoon Clementa, the child's mother, in view of the shame and fearing to lose another of her fingers, oblies his son to go to the butcher's to get some food with credit, in the belief that her son was guilty of her disgraces.

The kid, after the tragic experience acquired at the butcher's, gets the truthful and horrible vision of the real world. He has lost his innocence in the cruelest way, taking possession of him a sudden hate to whatever and whoever around him.

   От себя

Канны'1998 - награда кинокритиков за лучший короткометражный фильм.

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