His sexual initiation plunges shy adolescent Joaquin (played by Santiago Magill) into confusion. The laws governing his well-to-do bourgeois life don't offer him the answers to what he is feeling.

The attitude of his father, Luis Felipe (played by Hernan Romero) an unobliging male chauvinist patriarch who tries to beat the secrets of virility into him, confuses Joaquin even more; while the threadbare pieties of his mother, Maricucha (played by Carmen Elias) only deepen his sense of guilt.

These family pressures force him to find his own way. Life at university should help Joaquin to see things from a different point of view, and he throws himself into an all-or-nothing existence: drugs, sex, violence and danger.

However, he can't help feeling repulsed when he sees the hypocrisy and frivolity of his classmates. Feeling ever more unsettled, he finds a friend in Alejandra (played by Lucia Jimenez), who doesn't hesitate to leave her boyfriend due to her affection for Joaquin.

When they are out together, they meet Rocio (played by Lita Baluarte) and Gonzalo (played by Christian Meier), to whom Joaquin opens up his heart.

The prospects of his immediate future drag Joaquin towards the eye of a hurricane of doubt and confusion and leave him feeling suffocated. He is thrown out of the university and decides to abandon all self-control, accompanied by Alfonso (played by Giovanni Ciccia).

They are split up by an accident in mid-escape, and fear drives Joaquin to Miami. There, he comes face to face with isolation, prostitution and poverty. And it is there that he meets Gerardo (played by Carlos Fuentes), who offers him a different reading of social and sexual convention.

Locked in a life without prospects, Joaquin looks back with regret on his amorous disappointments and on the peace and quiet of his family surroundings.

But on a typically noisy, drugs-driven night at a beach disco, he bumps into Alejandra. And once again, his heart is to be split in two.

A coming-out story set in Lima, Peru. In Peru homosexuality is still a big taboo and the country and people are very conservative. This movie created a scandal in Peru.

I haven't seen this movie yet. My personal opinion will be online as soon as I have seen it personally.

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Joaquin: If you want to, you can touch it.
Dioni: Are you crazy? Men don't touch each other.
Joaquin: No one has to find out.
Dioni: I'm no fag, man. Now you're in big shit!
Joanquin: Tell and you're dead.

Luis Felipe takes his son to a prostitute. Prostitute China: What's wrong? Are you nervous?
Joaquin: I don't know. I don't feel well.
China: Don't worry. It's always like that the first time. Just let it happen.
Joaquin: I can't.
China: What's your problem? You like men?
Joaquin: It's not like that.
China: You can't fool me. I noticed it as soon as I saw you. Have you ever tried it with a man? Do it. You'll like it.

Luis Felipe Camino: A gay son! I would've prefered him mongoloid. Fuck!

Alfonso: This is just a passing vice for me. One day: no drugs, no guys.
Joaquin: Don't kid yourself. Maybe you'll quit drugs, but guys...I doubt it.
Alfonso: Here, in Lima, you can be a coke-head, a thief, a womanizer or whatever. But one thing you can't be is a faggot.
Joaquin: I can't stop being a faggot.
Alfonso: Then, you're fucked.

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