Paradais

Two misfit youngsters prowl about and get wasted inside an opulent apartment building. Lonely, fat, and addicted to porn, Franco Andrade obsessesively fantasizes about seducing his neighbor, a beautiful married woman and mother, while Polo fantasizes about leaving his demanding job as a gardener inside the gated community and running away from their narcotics-controlled village and his controlling mother. When it becomes clear that none of them will ever receive what they believe they deserve, Franco and Polo come up with a callous and horrific plan. The explosive fragility of Mexican society, with its racist, classist, and hyperviolent tendencies, is explored in Paradais, written in a horrifying torrent of language by one of our most exciting young authors. It also shows how the myths, wants, and struggles of youth can cause life to fall apart at the seams.