Javier Rojas

The death of his newborn brother will cause a child from the poor neighborhoods of Santiago to walk around the city with the lost cardboard wings that the dead baby lost after the wake, trying to return them to him with the illusion that his little brother can fly to heaven.

An officialist film produced by Chile Films in late 1965, following the submission to Congress of the agrarian reform bill by President Eduardo Frei Montalva’s government.

A portrait of a Chilean middle-class family in the 1940s and 1970s.