Synopsis

 

Blood and fire in Bogota. To protest against the destruction of their “Kingdom”, thousands of homeless people confront the police in the time of an urban guerilla. During the battle, the King of Thieves, at the helm of a group of 400 armed hobos, kidnaps a priest in his church.

This “Kingdom”, a real legend in Columbia, is the Cartucho. The biggest slum in the world. A filthy refuge housing 20,000 people, mostly beggars, thieves, prostitutes and drug addicts...

A brutal and blazing universal picture of a premonitory world that has succumb to poverty and violence. The Cartucho drags us along with the “urban savages”, through the dramatic destinities of Segundo, James and Pirata, Jerry and Marisol, a gang of street kids...

This movie is the outcome of Stan Guigui's photographic project, published, rewarded and exhibited throughout the world. A book of photographs will accompany the film at its release and exhibitions are currently being scheduled.