A group of young soldiers in a rebel gang in the mountains of Columbia are left in charge of a hostage and a cow - nobody comes out very well. This is sorta a lord-of-the-flies but with military indoctrination preceding it - it's a great delve into a world wildly unlike my own, where the kids operate entirely by their own set of not-too-sensible rules and shifting alliances, surviving inhospitable circumstances and each other as best they can. Inevitably in a largely child-and-teen cast, not all of them register entirely as characters, but those that do work well.
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