Güeros

A water-filled plastic bag explodes in a pram. The rebellious teenager Tomás threw it from a high-rise block. Unable to cope with him any longer, his mother sends him to Mexico City to his older brother Sombra, who lives with his colleague Santos in a run-down attic apartment. The two are currently striking against the strike organised by their fellow students at the University. Tomás brought a cassette with him, a legacy from his father, with music by Epigmenio Cruz, a luminary credited with saving Mexico’s rock scene from ruin who is even said to have made Bob Dylan cry. When the three read in a newspaper that Cruz is lying lonesome in a hospital, they set off in their old clunker to pay their last respects.