Trama

In Argentina's Cuidad de San Luis, the economy's tanked; there are few prospects for young people. At 27, Chiche, whose acting career never got off the ground, is pregnant, unemployed, living with her parents and her boyfriend, her 17-year-old neighbor, Mariano, whose own parents have disowned him. Chiche feuds constantly with her mother. Chiche's dad, a factotum in a local political party, sets up an interview at a bank with a party boss who's his old friend. Chiche is also to pick up her mother's coat at the cleaners. Little goes right. What options does Chiche have?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>