Seventeen

Hector is 17 year-old boy who has spent two years in a juvenile detention center. He's extremely incommunicative and withdrawn. Everything starts to change when he decides to participate in a form of rehabilitation therapy with dogs. There he meets a dog as distant as he is: Oveja. A close bond develops between the two, but a few months later Oveja is adopted and Hector finds himself alone once more. Unable to accept the situation and simply be happy for his canine friend, Hector decides to escape from the center two weeks before his time is up. His big brother Ismael finds him hiding in their grandmother Cuca's residence. Both will end up looking for Oveja all over the city, with Ismael trying to ensure that Hector does not commit any crime that could land him in jail when he comes of age. On this trip, Hector will not only look for his dog but will try to find himself. For this, he will have the company of his grandmother Cuca with other animals such as two dogs and a cow.

Written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, it is his first film after the six-year period that he take for other works in 2013, writing and reading and directing some short films with well-known actors.

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