Thirteen-year-old Mónica rebels against everything, surviving on the streets where she defends her pride, her friends, and her boyfriend, a drug dealer. On Christmas Eve, she sells roses to buy dreams of celebration, but life leads her back to solitude, poverty, drugs, and death.

Updating Hans Christian Andersen’s Little Match Girl to the streets of Medellín, Víctor Gaviria’s affecting second feature brings into focus the emotional lives of children fighting for survival. In a world ruled by violence, The Rose Seller restores humanity to characters made to feel expendable.