alenzygal

Set in Argentina in the year 2000, under a deep crisis resulting from the convertibility model initiated by Carlos Ménem and continued under the government of Fernando De la Rúa, the only thing left for the Argentine middle class to ignore the impoverishment, unemployment and social conflict in the country was television as an escape route. Chiquititas in the afternoon, Tinelli and Gasoleros at night, and Mirtha Legrand on Sundays. But every day, marginality grew, the pockets of the popular classes were shrinking, and capital flight was beating like the heart of the rats of those who took the benefits of One to One. Okupas appeared, precisely, to squat that only space of comfort that was available to the ostentatious and aspirational class in a devastated country. Okupas is the reflection of an excluded majority that was deprived of a decent home, a job or any future in a system that not only left them to their fate, but did not guarantee them anything, and took everything away from them. An excellent story that narrates the misadventures of a middle class young man, frustrated with the moment he is living in his life, decides to become corrupt and get to know the depths of social marginality: gangs, guns, drugs, alcohol, violence of all kinds. Friendship unites four young people who have fallen by the wayside of the system, and they will seek not only to survive the marginality, but also to survive themselves as a group.