El olvido is a documentary about poverty and poetry in a country plundered by the most powerful. But it is also a film in which the weakest refuse to be consigned to oblivion. It takes us to the forgotten city of Lima, to a forgotten people, the Peruvians, and, as in most Latin American countries, to the forgotten land of Peru. In El olvido we do not witness presidential elections, earthquakes or tragic events; instead we wander the streets of Lima, visiting its old restaurants and small shops and meeting moving characters who, through irony and poetry, refuse to be forgotten. This is a film about those who have lost everything, even their dreams, yet try to remember better times, and about those, like the 14-year-old boy, who have no good memories to look back on.