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This Review may contain SpoilersIt's not often you get a film where the main character is loathsome but compelling to watch. This is an uncomfortable film set in a sprawling characterless neighborhood of an Argentine town, curiously void of any population. It's about Raul (who is certainly no picture) in his 50s and Roberto (a bit handsome in a slightly dumb sort of way) aged 19. I think I have the names right, thought the DVD sleeve suggests it's the other way around (but then the subtitles confuse 'leaving' and 'living' or is it 'loving'). Nobody in the town featured in the film seems to have a real job; fenced compounds seem the order of the day.Young Roberto picks up Raul at the local rail station where freight trains rumble through from and to who-knows-where. Money does not seem Roberto's primary motive. He's a little surprised though by the abruptness and violence of Raul's pounce on him once they get to Raul's compound; it's pretty much a rape. This doesn't stop young Roberto not only not fleeing but hanging around next morning to clean the accumulated dishes in the kitchen sink, and do the work surfaces too. Clearly there's no sucker like this. We are bemused by the relatively handsome Roberto's passivity in accepting his lot, but also by what drives the loathsome Raul.Roberto takes this astonishing acquisition home to a meal with his grandmother and sister. Neither seems to bat an eyelid at this obviously strange match. Are they inured to Roberto's pick-ups or deadened by poverty to accepting whatever happens? So the relationship continues. Roberto wants to be more than just a handy lay for Raul - he wants Raul's ass; but Raul doesn't consent readily and puts him off easily. We learn without much surprise of Raul's little earners, drugs and guns. Roberto gets so frustrated he finds another pick-up at the same station, and they hit it off. Unwisely they let Raul stumble onto their relationship. What happens thereafter has an inevitability, and it doesn't end there - Roberto's sister, who at first bizarrely finds a magnetic attraction to Raul, comes into the action also, culminating in a dramatic ending.But where this film scores in my mind is the sheer ugliness of Raul. Imagine a greasy weasel combination of Brian Cox (as in his L.I.E. 2001 film, and Harvey Keitel and you want to know what makes him tick. It's a performance arguably on a par with De Niro in Taxi Driver. You'll be more careful whom you - or your son - pick up after watching this film, that's for sure.