The Little Guards Of Cerro Rico.
- Israel Limachi plays next to his house on the mountain „Cerro Rico“. Behind him lies the city Potosi and the old conveyor plant at the bottom of the mountain.(1/25)
- Maxima Limachi holds her youngest son Israel in her arms. On the window ledge stands a photo of her deceased husband. He died at the age of 35 in a mine.(2/25)
- Yoddy works in the kitchen to prepare lunch that she later sells to the miners that work close to her house.(3/25)
- Israel stands in front of his house right next to the entrance of the mine and plays with “Oso”, one of his six dogs.(4/25)
- Before they go to work in the mine, Israel, Maxima and Yoddy wait in the dressing room of the miners.(5/25)
- The seven years old Israel helps to free the cart‘s railway from debris.(6/25)
- Yoddy and Maxima are pushing the cart with rocks out of the mine.(7/25)
- Surrounded by mining-carts and the exhaust of compressors, Israel walks along a road on “Cerro Rico”.(8/25)
- Due to his burns Paul can only sit at the side of the soccer field and watch his mother play. Maxima trains with her team for the upcoming tournament.(9/25)
- Highly concentrated, Isreael pucks gray hairs from his mother‘s head.(10/25)
- When Yoddy doesn’t have to help in the mine, there is always something to do in the household.(11/25)
- In the early morning, Yoddy and her brothers lie in bed. Under the mattress the family stores drills that the miners use in the mine next to the house.(12/25)
- Maxima talks with the young miners in front of her house.(13/25)
- Every friday the miners drink cheap 96% alcohol or beer before and during their shift.(14/25)
- Paul plays with his dog „Pirulin“ in the dressing-room next to the mine.(15/25)
- Paul leaves his house on the way to the adit. In the foreground stands a mining-cart on wooden rails that lead out of the mine.(16/25)
- When Paul slept at a neighbor‘s house, the twelve year old son of the family poured alcohol over his leg and foot and set him on fire...(17/25)
- ...He suffered from extensive second-degree burns, but his mother never sent him to a doctor or hospital.(18/25)
- A teddy-bear lies in the muddy river bed.(19/25)
- Maxima, the brother of her deceased husband and her tree children are on the way to the hot springs of „Miraflores“ about one hour outside of Potosí.(20/25)
- Since they don‘t have any shower or running water, they make the best out of their situation and travel once a week to the hot-springs(21/25)
- Next to the hot-springs of “Miraflores” one hour outside of Potosí Yoddy, Paul and Israel can be children at last.(22/25)
- Between her tasks, Maxima takes a break sitting on her bed. She seems tires from the daily efforts to provide the most basic needs for her family.(23/25)
- Every day at twelve o’clock, Israel and his siblings go through a little transformation to show their best side in school.(24/25)
- When Yoddy, Paul and Israel come home from school it already gets dark. Often they meet drunken miners on the way up to their house.(25/25)