The Taste of Knuckles

The Taste of Knuckles

2016 · 26 min · Drama

Pancho is a young man who lives with his father picking up garbage. He wants to escape poverty and the yoke of his father; all he has to achieve it are his fists.

Directed by Dante Silva · Written by Dante Silva

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