Within the framework of a thriller, Hermosillo creates a film that is rich in the dreams and ambiguities of childhood. Two precocious provincial boys, enamored of the movies, head out for Mexico City in search of real-life adventure. They are kidnapped by two gunmen, who are lovers, and who adopt them as mascots but also involve them in their cutthroat activities. The criminal escapades are a dream-come-true for the boys, until the police enter the picture and they are forced to betray their dangerous captors. They return as hometown heroes to quiet streets and the dubious thrill of the Saturday matinee. Hermosillo recalls the dark sensitivity and humor of Buñuel in Los Olvidados and the boyhood adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson and Mark Twain; like all of them, he rejects the innocence of childhood for something at once more mysterious and more real. "A little masterpiece...at heart a paean to anarchy, a cautionary tale of how good it is for a `good' little boy to go bad." (Elliott Stein)