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Pereda's down-market city-symphony follows two hapless Mexico City moving-van “entrepreneurs” through a succession of run-ins with clients, friends, and family, all of whom are caught in a perpetual motion that's rarely heading upwards-and is usually just spinning in circles. While ignoring his mother's constant pleas-to get dressed, to clean that mess, to get a life-young Gabino unflappably breezes through other people's collapsing living situations and packs the lremnants into his van; his final cargo, however, may hit closer to home. A bemused Slacker odyssey among some luckless, nearly telenovela-ready Mexico City denizens and their soon-to-be-lost belongings, Perpetuum Mobile is a symphony of a city in transit, scored with honking van horns, slamming doors, and the awkward silence of goodbyes, and anchored by the steady bass of a youth spent constantly in motion, yet continually still.