Barrio

is a 1998 Spanish film directed by Fernando León de Aranoa. It won several awards including Best Director at the 13th Goya Awards, and was also nominated for Best Picture. Plot In Madrid, 15-year-olds Manu, Javi and Rai spend summer around their neighborhood as their families cannot afford going on vacation. Although they have similar wishes of having sex and traveling, they each face different problems. Manu misses his deceased mother, as well as his brother Rafa, who according to his father is a successful businessman traveling abroad. Javi lives with his sister Susana, their argumentative parents and a deaf grandfather. Rai often commits shoplifting and robs cars, as well as having Susana as a romantic interest. Unknown to his father, Manu takes a job as a delivery driver, lying to his employer about owning a motorbike, as he plans to make the deliveries by bus. Rai and Javi steal yogurt from a supermarket, whose brand offers paid vacations as a prize. One day the three steal a bouquet from a graveyard and attempt to sell the flowers at a bar. Rai tries to flirt with a girl but is confronted by her boyfriend and they are forced to leave. The next morning, Rai learns by mail that he has won the prize but is disappointed to learn that it is a jet ski, completely useless in their neighborhood, so it is simply left chained up to a streetlight on his apartment's front. To cheer Rai up and inspired by the jet ski, Javi and Manu arrange a mock tropical-themed party. They later visit Rai's brother, a night watchman at an apartment complex, as he has promised to show them his gun. Rai's brother leaves to the entrance to have sex with his girlfriend, while Manu and Javi masturbate watching them through CCTV. However, they stop when Rai pretends to shoot himself as a joke and get angry with him for scaring them.