The Rose Seller

Thirteen-year-old Monica has carved out her own world on the streets, a fragile ecosystem built on friendship, fierce pride, and the nightly sale of roses. Each evening, Christmas included, she takes her place on the sidewalk, defending her scant possessions and her right to exist in a city where childhood is measured by survival instincts. Her universe revolves around a tight circle: her friends, her drug-dealing boyfriend, and an unyielding dignity that brooks no compromise. Yet life is poised to deliver another brutal lesson, threatening to shatter this delicate equilibrium with a fresh appointment of loneliness, poverty, and the specter of death.