1. Characters
1.1. Raphael
1.1.1. 14 years old
1.1.2. Dumpsite boy
1.1.3. Worked on dumpsite from when he was 3 years old
1.1.4. Thinks he's brothers with Gardo because they know most of things about each other
1.2. Gardo
1.2.1. 14 years old
1.2.2. Dumpsite boy
1.2.3. Was born 7 years earlier than Raphael
1.2.4. Always serious on everything/does not smile that much
1.2.5. Thinks that Raphael (sometimes) acts like a kid.
1.3. Rat
1.3.1. Very skinny
1.3.2. Has no family
1.3.3. Lives in the bottom area of the dumpsite; were the rats are. This is why people call him rat.
1.3.4. Has broken teeth.
1.3.5. His real name is Jun-Jun.
1.3.6. Younger than Raphael and Gardo.
1.4. Father Juilliard
1.4.1. Have ran the Pascal Aguila Mission on Behala dumpsite for 7 years.
1.4.2. 63 years old
1.4.3. Knows very well with Rat.
1.4.4. There is a rule that you can not give food to kids if it's not time but he brakes that rule to give some food to Rat and some other kids.
1.5. Olivia
1.5.1. A lady from a foreign country, that came to Behala and worked in the Mission School with Father Juliard.
1.5.2. She left Behala because the police came and asked her about why she went to the prison and why she met Gabriel Olondriz, which made her feel that she shouldn't stay in there anymore although she got out of the police station safely.
1.6. Jose Angelico
1.6.1. He died in the police station when the police was questioning him about stuff.
1.6.2. He always sent letters to Gabriel Olondriz.
1.6.2.1. Gabriel Olondriz is his grandfather.
1.6.3. His ID card, wallet, and keys that were in a purse was found in the garbage (was an accident).
1.6.4. He tried to steal money from Zapanta but got caught
1.7. Gabriel Olondriz
1.7.1. He is in prison.
1.7.2. He is old and very sick.
1.7.3. The reason he is in prison is because he tried to prove that Mr. Zapanta, a government, had stolen thousands of money, and he was full of evidence, but the lawyers had betrayed him so he was arrested for telling false evidence.
1.7.4. He worked by the dumpsite with his son, Dante Jerome, and he was unsalaried.
1.8. Pia Dante
1.8.1. Jose Angelico's daughter, Gabriel Olondriz's grand daughter.
1.8.2. She is alive, not dead.
1.8.3. She goes to the beach and lives together with Raphael, Gardo, and Rat.
1.9. Regis Zapanta
1.9.1. Vice President
1.9.2. Very rich and fat
1.9.3. Lives in an enormous house
1.10. Frederico Gonz
1.10.1. Makes grave memorials
1.10.2. Has made several stones for the dead son and daughter of Jose Angelico
2. Settings
2.1. Behala, Mexico
2.1.1. Dumpsite
2.1.1.1. Smells bad; there are tons of mountains of trash.
2.2. Train Station
2.2.1. Full of station kids (a different version of the dumpsite kids).
2.3. Police Station
2.4. Mission School
2.5. Prison
2.6. Outside, not clear where but certainly not Behala.
2.7. Graves
2.7.1. The day of dead
2.8. Beach
3. Actions
3.1. Raphael's unlucky-lucky day
3.1.1. Raphael found a bag of trash that was not opened. the trash bags that are not opened mean that they are the good ones -- when Raphael opened the bag, it had purse and inside the purse there was a fat wallet, an ID card, and a key. In the wallet there was 11 thousand pesos so he shared it with Gardo (Raphael took 600, and Gardo took 500).
3.2. The police came to find the purse that Raphael and Gardo had found, but Raphael and Gardo did not give it to the police because they thought that the police would not give the price that they said they will.
3.3. Raphael, Gardo, and Rat went to the station to open the locker and see what's inside. They took the train and went to the station. At first when they got there, they met some trash boys. Rat knew who they were so he talked to them as he walked. They were very scared and nervous that they always looked around if the police was there but fortunately, there were no police around. They could easily take the envelope and got out of the station. They hid behind the bushes and checked what it was inside. It was something related with prisoners.
3.4. Raphael was arrested to the police station, when the police men had came. Raphael was very scared, and he kept crying. He was forced to get into the car, and when they arrived to the police station, Raphael was questioned by the people. The police kept asking if he had found the purse but Raphael kept lying to them that he did not find it.
3.5. Gardo lied to Olivia that he had to go to the prison to meet his grandfather.
3.6. Raphael and Rat went to Zapanta's house, which was gigantic, and heard about Jose Angelico by a gardener who worked for a long time in that house.
3.7. Jose Angelico's story
3.7.1. Jose Angelico was adopted by Dante Jerome, Gabriel Olondirz's son. (Many other kids were adopted with him, too). Dante Jerome and Gabriel Olondirz liked him more than the other kids, because he was very smart, so they thought that he would get lots of money from him when he grows up. But Jose Angelico did not become a lawyer or something like that, that would bring Dante and Gabriel a load of money -- he became a houseboy who worked in Zapanta's house. One day, for some reason, he stole thousands of money from Zapanta by putting them in a fridge. He told Zapanta to change the fridge into a new one, and said that he would give the old one to the guy who delivered the new fridge. He got on the truck with the fridge (who is containing money), out of the gates. After this he got arrested and killed during a conference(?) with the police.
3.8. Gardo, Raphael, and Rat escaped from the dumpsite after they heard the police car coming. They were sure that the police was searching for them, so they got their money, and ran away.
3.8.1. They went to the prison that Gardo went before to meet Gabriel Olondriz. They were scared to be caught, but they waited there sitting, searching for the guard from there, thinking that he could help them find the bible that Gabriel said he had before he died (this will be a great clue to find where the fridge that Jose hided it). But when they finally met each other, the guard asked for 20 thousand pesos.
3.8.1.1. To get those 20 thousand pesos, Rat went to the Mission school, by riding a garbage truck going to the dumpsite. He sneaked inside the school through the window, and opened the secret cabinet that contained a bit more than 20 thousand pesos. Because Rat felt bad for stealing Father Julliard's money, he wrote -- or drew -- a note that showed some clues that it was Rat himself, the one who did it.
3.8.1.1.1. After they got the money, Gardo went to meet the guard at a restaurant, and he had a hook in his pocket, just in case the guard calls the police, then he can attack the people and run away with the bible. He, Raphael, and Rat also planned a route to toss the bible to each other and run away separately, then meet again at one place. When Gardo went to the restaurant, both him and the guard checked what each other have got, and traded them. But as the kids had predicted, the guard called the cops who were waiting in another tables from that restaurant. The guard grabbed his arm tight, but he could run away by hitting the guard's face (he was not so sure about where exactly on the face) and ran away. As soon as he got out of the restaurant, he threw the bible to Rat, and all three of them, including Raphael, ran away form the police.
3.9. After they got the bible, they took hard time to see what the code meant, and when they finally found it out, they realized that the code was telling them to go to the graves. On the day of dead (a big celebration in Mexico), they went to the graves and searched for Jose Angelico's wife's grave. They also took hard time in here, to find the right coffin, but then realized that they were searching in the part that rich people are buried -- on Earth. The other side of the grave was for the poor people, who are not even buried, but just inside a concrete box.
3.9.1. When they found the stack of 3 boxes (obviously, it was from Jose Angelico's family), they saw that the bottom one was his wife's, the middle one was his son's, and the top one was his daughter's. They were about to give up on opening the concrete box with money, feeling very guilty of trying to steal it from a poor person that had lost everything including his own family. But then, they heard a voice asking them if they are searching for anything. They answered no, and asked the question, "What's your name?", and her answer was "Pia Dante". She was Jose Angelico's daughter.
3.9.1.1. Now that they know that the daughter of Jose Angelico is alive, they were sure that the top coffin that has the name 'Pia Dante' written is the one with money. They brought materials to break open the concrete box and some bags to put the money in. They asked Pia Dante to wait, and they got the money as soon as possible. They put all of them inside the bag and went out of the grave with two sacks full of money, and a girl.
3.10. That same night they found the money, they went to the dumpsite, to where they lived before. They climbed up the big mountains of garbage and started throwing money to the air. When Gardo and Raphael was doing all these throwings, Rat went to the mission school and placed the money on Father Julliard's desk.
3.11. After all this. they sneaked back out of the dumpsite, and went to a beach. As Rat has always wished, they bought a boat and fished happily for their rest of the life, with Pia Dante.
4. Themes
4.1. Poverty
4.1.1. So many people in Mexico are suffering through poverty.
4.2. Perseverance
4.2.1. Raphael, Gardo, and Rat never gave up on Jose Angelico's wallet, nor did they give up on finding the money that Jose Angelico had hidden.
4.3. Lies
4.3.1. There are lies going all over. The kids lied about the wallet, the letter, and everything else that is happening with them.
4.4. Morality
4.4.1. In the movie, there was a part that Raphael could've shot and killed the police who were always cruel to them, but he didn't. Raphael seems like he know what is right and what is wrong. He knows that more revenges will stop the peace.
4.5. Corruption
4.5.1. Governments, especially Zapanta, are stealing the money from the poor and making the country worse.