"Stockholm/Sweden/August 1999" "Giancarlo12and his family live in hiding." "We meet them in an undisclosed locationwith an interpreter." "hidden" "It's the seventh of August at..." "What are you doing?" "They want to know what it was like when you came here." "Andyou'll translate?" "Yes." "I can tellyou abit:" "They came here in October 1994." "Giancarlo couldn't come with them." "They couldn't afford to bring him." "But over the course of the year we saved up money for his ticket." "When I camel didn't know anything about deportation." "I just came like everyone else." "How long have you been in hiding?" "About...since 1997..." "two yearsl think." "How many times have you moved?" "At least five times." "Do your classmates know?" "l think they suspect it." "So I try to stay away from them." "Why are you afraid of them?" "I think their parents might be policemen." "They wonder why I won't give out my address and things." "They're suspicious sometimes." "Once I was at schoolafter we were threatenedwith deportation..." "And they told me "The police were atyour place."" "I askedwhat they didand they said "They broke in through the door."" "It was like we were already caught andwe couldn't escape." "What didyou do then?" "Stayed home looking out the window." "How longwere you alone in Peru?" "A year." "I almost never got to go to school because I had to work." "How oldwere you?" "Eight." "What didyou work with at eight?" "Polished shoes on the street." "Me and some other kids went into town together..." "Sometimes the police chased us." "We tried to hide from them." "We knew practically the whole city so we had holes to hide in." "Some of the younger kids got caught because they couldn't run so fast." "You mean younger than eight?" "Yeahsix or seven." "What happened to them?" "They had to go to an orphanage." "Were they orphans?" "Some of themwere." "Some had parentsbut the police thought their parents didn't care." "And the parents never found out?" "They did..." "But they thought their kids would have abetter life there." "Did they?" "l don't know.We never visited them." "Were they close friends of yours?" "Yesmost of them." "Hi." "Hi." "What do you think when you meet someone you want to be friends with?" "I think we could be best friends." "But I can't have that." "I always break up with friends." "Sometimes I get desperate." "What do you do then?" "Nothing." "Lie down and try to sleep." "And I think"What have I done to get me deported?"" "is it hard to talk about it?" "It's alittle hard because..." "I tell so many people and they don't do anything." "What do you think I should do?" "l don't know." "That winter Giancarlo attempts suicide." "This time the authorities take him seriously and the family is allowed to stay." "ShootGiancarloshoot!" "A film by Hanna HeilbornDavid Aronowitsch and MatsJohansson" "Design:" "Acne 3D production:" "Jonas Moberg MantraAnimation/Story AB"