خلاصه داستان : "ماریانو" که تنها هفده سال دارد اسلحه ای در خانه پیدا کرده و به خود دوبار شلیک می کند. اما زنده می ماند و...

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.

خلاصه داستان : دو کودک 12 ساله شیلیایی از طبقات مختلف اجتماعی در سال 1973 با یکدیگر دوست می شوند. هر دو با افزایش تنش های سیاسی در کشورشان دنیای یکدیگر را کشف می کنند.

Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.