Berlin
International Film Festival - Forum
When the lights go down, the so called White Train arrives into the city of Buenos Aires from the suburbs. A train that travels by night, almost invisible, like the army of shadows that goes with it.
Ghostly dressed, the passengers are a group of men, women and children called the ‘cartoneros’, the cardboard people, and they earn their living with the trash, collecting what others throw away.
The cardboard people must fight everyday and day after day against all odds.
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This
documentary depicts the situation suffered by a large part of Argentineans
who, during recent years, became impoverished as a consequence of the
economic and social model imposed by the system. It also shows the
internal conflict that takes place inside the cardboard people. In spite
of the social situation that they endure, they keep looking for being
dignified human beings.
Outside their world, the city is being torn down by riots.
But the cardboard people only wish, apart from surviving,
to set up a train to bring food to starving children, dying of
malnutrition, in a northern city 1500 kilometers away from Buenos Aires.
Code
2417
80
minutes
