27 minutes to watch a man lose everything — or save himself.
Gerardo is a young man with limited financial resources who works as a public speaker in various squares and streets of Lima. One day, after work, his boss offers him a job that goes against his moral principles, forcing him to choose between accepting the job and betraying his ideals, or refusing it and facing severe financial hardship.
Acting
Bernal's face carries an entire economic system collapsing.
Cinematography
Lima's streets as suffocating character, not backdrop.
Direction
Maza makes 27 minutes feel like a lifetime of dread.
Director
Marcelo Maza
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Peruvian cinema's 'generation of the streets' often uses non-actors from Lima's working-class districts; Bernal's raw performance continues this documentary-adjacent tradition.
The film's Spanish title 'Mi Lucha' deliberately echoes 'Mein Kampf' — not as endorsement, but as bitter irony about whose struggles get titled as epic.
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