Güeros

Güeros is a 2014 Mexican film directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios.

In the introduction scene a young mother takes her crying infant outside in a stroller, only to be hit by Tomas dropping a waterballoon rom the rooftop of the apartment building. When Tomas' mother finds out, she decides to send him to stay with his older brother Sombra, and Santoso, a student in Mexico City and his roommate Santos. After a bus ride he arrives at his brother's home late at night. The apartment is dark without electricity. The following morning there is no breakfast. Tomas witnesses how he and his roommate can obtain electricity though the neighbor below them by communicating with a girl with Down's syndrome, who will give them an extension cord in return for a story. Tomas reads the newspaper and discovers a small note about Epigmenio Cruz, a Mexican folk rock musician, being hospitalized for liver problems. Tomas who idolizes Cruz since his father first brought a cassette of his music, suggests to search for and visit him. They get into a protest march of students, the 1999 student protests in Mexico City, enter a hospital whereCruz had been admitted. Then they cross Mexico City to a zoo where Cruz had been working. His colleague tells them he no longer works there. They eventually find him in a bar. After Tomas is heaping praise on him, Cruz sits there motionless, as if dead.