“The longed-for upside-down world which haunts the girl’s premature disenchantment is woven through the narrative in a clear and coherent web of symbols" (J.Young - 'Pardo News' Locarno Film Festival)
‘Maquilas’ on the border factories in the north of Mexico, in Ciudad Juarez, where hundreds of women have been found hacked to pieces, for the most part workers in the ‘maquilas’. It is a lengthy journey into the inferno
The film follows a gang of youths who spend every day collecting scrap metal from derelict houses. They live in Pozzuoli, an old fishing village which has repeatedly been hit by earthquakes.