Juan Carlos Maneglia & Tana Schémbori : 2012
7 Boxes
It's Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is a sweltering forty degrees. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow delivery boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a fancy TV set in the infamous Mercado 4. Then he receives an unusual proposal, to carry seven boxes of unknown content in exchange for a torn half of a US $100 bill. He'll get the other half when he finishes the job. Víctor, who has never seen a banknote of this value, cannot even guess at how many guaraníes this represents. Given instructions towards an unknown destination along the way through a borrowed cellphone, Víctor embarks on the journey. Crossing the eight blocks that constitute the market seemed easy but the task proves to be more complicated than expected. Something in the boxes is highly coveted and without realising, Víctor and his pursuers quickly find themselves caught up in something they know nothing about. As night falls Víctor discovers that he is now an accomplice in a dangerous crime.
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