La Vida loca

A shocking and intimate documentary that reflects a depressing and hopeless reality. The gangs in El Salvador are called Maras, groups of young people, like the Los Angeles gangs or the A or B Gangs in Oslo. Their extreme violence and lack of empathy make Maras’s terror feared all over Central America. In this documentary we observe everyday life on the outskirts of San Salvador, and the daily routine in a culture that attacks the principles of democracy and spreads fear and death threats to a young generation without a future. jo