CHILDREN IN A JAR
For the children living on the streets of Central American cities, the reality of their daily struggle to survive has them continually searching for a way out. In fact, most Central American urban areas contain subcultures of street kids fighting to survive and escaping only temporarily by using cheap drugs. CHILDREN IN A JAR is a dramatic snapshot of how these children survive each day, featuring poignant tellings of how they came to be on the street. These young boys and girls relate how they steal and beg for food and money to buy glue, how they have been raped and witnesses to murders. Touching interviews with the children in this documentary reveal a sadness at their lost innocence and the realization that they could be killed at any moment and no one would care. Even in this desperation, the uncertain future of these young addicts holds promise beyond the bottom of their glue jars.