In 1999, disaffected teenager Tomás is sent to live with his older brother Sombra, who attends the National University in Mexico City, but has been mostly been just hanging out. Tomás, meanwhile, is determined to track down his idol, a 1960s-vintage folk-rocker named Epigmenio Cruz. Shot in glorious black-and-white, Alonso Ruiz Palacios' microbudgeted film follows the indie-slacker template to the letter and has some interesting formalistic experiments — such as the sound cutting out whenever Tomás listens to Cruz on his headphones — but it ultimately meanders too much for its own good.
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