Harina

Harina

2018 · 15 min · ★ 6.0 · Drama

Roberto is a middle class working professional trying to survive hyperinflation amid the Venezuelan crisis while maintaining his unemployed mother. An argument breaks out when she asks him to buy flour for her birthday cake. In an effort to make amends, he resorts to the black market to buy the scarce food, but gets caught in the violent looting of a market.

Directed by Joanna Cristina Nelson · Written by Joanna Cristina Nelson

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