A mother abandons her child — and Mexican cinema abandons subtlety.
Single mother sends her son to an orphanage because she feels she can't provide for him.
Acting
Julián Bravo's child performance hits devastating notes.
Direction
Palomino's stark framing of institutional oppression.
Director
Felipe Palomino
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in twelve days on repurposed orphanage grounds; actual orphans were extras.
Part of 1960s Mexico's 'cine marginal' — low-budget social realist films that critics ignored until the 2000s.
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