Happily

Follows five young men and about the marginalized, excluded humanity who seeks a place in the world. Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano live on the streets of Medellín. The five children no longer have any contact with their families. They form a kind of fraternal clan in which they have to make their way in a parallel world without laws. In doing so, they uphold ideals such as friendship and dignity, but also display disobedience and resistance. In a dangerous journey between delirium and nothingness, the group leaves the city and enters the depths of the Colombian interior. There they hope to find a piece of land that Rá inherited from her late grandmother. Like thousands of other Colombians, she was once violently expelled by paramilitaries. After his death, Rá received the "promised land" through a government restitution program. The boys make friends that help them advance but also warn them of the dangers of their company. They also meet sex workers who provide them with short-term maternity care. Rá (Carlos Andrés Castañeda) survives on the streets of Medellín with his four friends, who are also teenagers. It is a daily struggle for survival, marked by petty crime and physical altercations. But fate seems to have taken pity on them: Rá receives an official letter stating that, as heir, he is entitled to the piece of land from which his grandmother was once driven out by paramilitaries. Hitchhiking, Rá and his friends leave the juggernaut of the metropolis behind and soon find themselves in the rural seclusion of the Andes. The boys have to find their way in a Colombia that is different from theirs in almost every way. But one thing remains the same: the law of the strongest. And no one was waiting for five teenagers to claim a piece of land where there might even be gold to be found. —SRF