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7 Boxes
PARAGUAY · 2012

7 Boxes

Juan Carlos Maneglia
street crime teenage ambition urban poverty black market dealings innocent caught in crime
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Synopsis

It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in Mercado 4. He is offered the chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for $100. This sounds like an easy job but it soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted. Víctor and his persecutors find themselves caught up in a crime they know nothing about.