- Michael (or Fresh as he's well known) is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh' sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that fresh sel…
- Luca a teenage orphan leaves his home town Chipilo for Mexico city, in seek of fortune, where he will met Paulina, a 24 year old circus trapeze artist, who will teach him love and life in the circus.