Emilio Ortiz is a teenager who is dedicated to birthday cheer during a summer with her best friend Bern ,perform this peaceful work together which will be revolutionized with the arrival of the lush neighborhood Sol a girl who comes to care for her little cousins to the house of his uncles. Emilio will see this as an opportunity to approach what appears to be the ideal and perfect girl of his dreams, becoming the babysitter of his neighbors and beginning a series of curious events, the only thing that still does not realize is that sometimes love is closer than he thinks.
Gustavo Ortíz is a university student from a comfortable, middle class family who is forced to spend his summer vacation cleaning pools when his parents are struck down with financial problems. Ever the optimist, Gustavo soon realizes that his new job provides the perfect excuse to get closer to the girl of his dreams - his neighbor and former classmate, Nicole Ivanov.
Ivan is a kid whose family decides to go back to Chile from New York, after at least a decade away. Ivan of course is not quite the Chilean kid his grandparents would like him to be: he sulks, misses the Opera, finds things odd and ugly, acting like a real "little gringo" (hence the title).
Niki and his friends are members of the marginalised underclass living on the outskirts of Santiago. During Chile's transition from dictatorship to democracy (1988-1990), they forge a path from drug- and drink-fuelled nihilism and petty crime into the world of market-driven illegality and Niki begins a seemingly predestined relationship with the middle-class "loca", Manuela. Memorable episodes and characters, quotable dialogue and a mix of earthy national portrait and surrealistic flourish make this one of the key Chilean films of the Nineties.
