It’s Friday night and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy working at a street market, dreams of getting a cell phone. For this reason, he accepts to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents for $100. But when a rival carter tries to stop him, a wild chase ensues.

Set in the sprawling marketplace of Asunción, this Paraguayan caper film is brimming with energy. The titular seven boxes serve as an inspired MacGuffin in Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori’s riveting feature debut, a vividly inhabited crime story with a fiercely controlled knack for tension.