Sumas y restas

Sumas y Restas English Additions and Subtractions is a 2004 Colombian drama film written and directed by Vctor Gaviria. The plot follows a young real estate developer who ventures into cocaine trafficking lured by the opportunity of making money fast, but his life descends in a spiral of drugs and violence. As he did in his previous films, Vctor Gaviria opted to cast non professional actors.

One of Santiagos business partners, nicknamed el duende, introduces Santiago to Gerardo, a humble, but increasingly wealthy man whose front business is a mechanics shop. In reality, Gerardo is making a fortune with a secret laboratory preparing cocaines paste. Gerardo has many contacts in the rural region of Frontino, Antioquia were the authorities turn a blind eye to his rustic laboratory to process cocaine.Gerardo takes Santiago to his laboratory and makes him business partner. He not only can use Santiagos trucks to transport the chemicals needed to process cocaine, but wants to sell the drug to Santiagos drugdealers friends who transport the drug to the United States. Lured to the temptation of easy money and heavy partying, Santiago gets increasingly involved in cocaine tracking. Gerardo, a man with no education and of cultural background with little in common with Santiago is nevertheless charismatic and offers him a warm friendship, money, decadent parties, easy women, alcohol and drugs. ........

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