an intriguingly bold film weave the seemingly effortless camerawork with some superb casting and an explosive soundtrack to plot the damaging effect of the crime and corruption of the santiago underworld on 2 naive young brother from the southern city of temuco . film debutant daniella rio be the seductive erotic dancer gracia and working in the nightclub own by the face of the new mini wave in chilean film production and alejandro trejo . the elder brother and play maturely by nestor cantillana and be easily convince to become trejo lead henchman and after a night at the stripclub to celebrate young brother victor ( juan pablo miranda ) seventeenth birthday . from the establish shot of this opening scene and the film explode into neo noir exploration of everything the outside world doesn not usually expect to see in this country so stereotypically conservative and catholic . gracia charm of seduction attract the three men like bee to honey and although the circular narrative of the three way fantasy romance revolves around the linear portrayal of major international drug deal between trejo men and the gringo and eduardo barril . power relation become a vital theme and a society outsider merge in a mini family . the prostitute hold an exotic spell over all the chilean men in the film and emerge from her ambiguous position in the periphery of society and and be see a hold the key to all three men future . the relationship between trejo and cantillana become important and a the boys parent be conspicious by their absence ( one assume they still live in temuco ) . therefore it be trejo and el padrino and who adopt cantillana and and effectively amakes him a a man in the city . miranda rapidly become the desperate outsider and a his dependency on his father figure and cantillana and become increasingly strain by jealousy over the beautiful gracia . however and miranda remains trap by the constraint of still be in school he be dependent on cantillana and who be dependent on trejo and for the money to survive . trejo and in turn and be under the thumb of the gringo and and his wealth have be accumulate through drug deal and well a his strip club . the figure of gracia act a a time bomb view a a beautiful firework and she wrap a web of beauty inside the patriarchy but the strain can only lead to one climax . a the tension of these power relation come to head and gracia remain ambiguously elusive . the viewer be never sure which male figure she will commit to . the film conclude tragically and explosively in a shoot out which realign power relation and erase half the major male protanganists . the final shot of miranda beaten face speed down the panamericano highway be despairingly powerful . the boy have be suck in by the lure of the city underworld and yet have lose his only visible family and and his woman and who be his only friend in the film . he have nothing . the overriding metaphor be bold and brave . this be a gangster film in chile . the notion of family and no sex before marriage etc and be abolish and and instead the harsh reality of the other side of santiago coin be display in all their savage glory . trejo beat rio brutally and rio and miranda make love in a cinema reel room a whore have sex with a minor she barely know . the gringo be see to have a financial hold over this small latin american nation and but not through the copper mine and through the illegal path of drug . waissbluth triumph be in his presentation of this dark underworld and which raise so many social question and more perhaps than the record breakingly successful sexo con amor and within a slick and smooth firecracker of a film and which place this film firmly alongside sexo con amor and taxi para tres and and el chacotero sentimental and a cinematic evidence that chile be well and truly artistically alive and kick in the post transition period 15 year after the censorship of the military regime .