Ariana Romero

Consumed by age and grief, Héctor Urrunaga, a former Peruvian football legend, struggles to let go the past after losing his wife. When his estranged son, Hernán, rescues him from another late-night escape, both are forced to confront years of emotional distance, guilt, and unspoken love.

In its minimal and non-traditional plot, Shitcago follows a seemingly mundane day in the life of a young loner living in Chicago as he wanders around the city and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.

An old lady cooks pozole for her granddaughter, blissfully unaware of the great battle being fought between the ingredients in the boiling pot. Kernels come to life to wage a war of culture and flavor. If we are what we eat, then Mexico is a never-ending clash between two worlds.

In the surroundings of Military Camp 1, a young soldier is forced to interrogate a detained student, provoking him a crisis of conscience accompanied by the memory of the corpses he piled up hours before, following the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre.