Mariano, 16, inexplicably and without warning, shoots himself twice and improbably survives. Then, life goes on. His brother pursues a romance with a girl working at a fast-food joint, his mother takes off on a trip with a stranger, and Mariano recruits a woman to join his medieval wind ensemble.

70年代期間，在所謂的「兀鷹行動」下，阿根廷、智利、玻利維亞、巴拉圭和烏拉圭的軍事獨裁統治奪走了自由與和平的所有可能性，在這些國家的近代史中寫下最血腥慘痛的一頁。本片故事發生在玻利維亞，當一名授勛的兀鷹將軍荷西心臟病發後，他對他的獨子講述他過往的黑暗秘密以尋求救贖。荷西帶領我們踏上兀鷹行動之旅，以了解這些軍事政權所造成的真實情景，向我們介紹被偷走人生的主角們。榮譽、失落與愛情，成為了「兀鷹行動」中的犧牲品，其中背叛是最終的犧牲。

When her parents die in a car accident, adolescent Bianca’s universe is upended. Staying alone in the family’s Rome apartment and entrusted with the care of her younger brother, Tomas, she struggles to hold things together as her place in her surreal new world becomes blurry. Life is further complicated when Tomas’s gym-rat friends invite themselves to stay indefinitely. Using Bianca as a lure for a heist they’ve concocted, they convince her to initiate a sexual relationship with enigmatic blind hermit Maciste, played by Rutger Hauer. But as the two spend time together, Bianca unexpectedly finds normalcy and acceptance in the aging B-movie star and former Mr. Universe’s rococo mansion.
Based on Roberto Bolaño’s last novel, “Una Novelita Lumpen".

2004 film by Andrés Wood