Manuel

An eighteenyearold boy is released from an institute for minors with no family support and for the first time tastes the bittersweet flavor of freedom an imprisoned mother longs to go back and start all over again These are the characters taken from the real world and transferred into a film that is first of all a shadowing of human beings of their hopes and little acts of cowardice But it is also the story of a time of waiting of a soul going around in circles a coming of age in a desolate and oppressive marginal context that becomes a character in its own right