DOCUMENTARY

The inhabitants work in inhuman conditions mining metals on the Cerro Rico mountain. Deprived of any workers' rights, abandoned by the state, treated as cheap labour, they earn just enough money not to starve to death. Hardly any miner survives to thirty-fi ve in good health, many die at that age. The situation forces Juvenal to work in the mine, even though the boy is only eleven years old. Claudia and Hoper, who have managed to avoid mining accidents, are waiting for their turn. A selfproclaimed teenage priest heroically tries to force hope into people.