La madre

Miguel is a 14yearold kid about to go back to a centre for minors His mother out of work and with an unstable personal life is incapable of taking care of him This is why Miguel lives in a state of constant urgency doing the housework selling Kleenex or stealing from supermarkets All this ends when Social Services come for him again and his mother makes him seek refuge in the house of Bogdan a Rumanian exlover of hers who lives in a nearby town At the same time María the owner of a bar sympathizes with the boy and gives him the virtually maternal treatment that he does not get in his own home However everything is thrust forward when the mother suddenly disappears