[1] The widow Juana (Carlota Ureta Zamorano) moves to the slums of Caracas with her son Juan (Edgar Jimenez).

Juan puts strains on his relationships after confessing his love to Carmen, a local girl, and walking in on his mother and her boyfriend, the sorcerer Encarnacin.

[4] Caín Adolescente was Chalbaud's first film and one of only two he completed before the cinema industry forced him to move into television and return to the theatre for many years.

It was one of two films released as the Marcos Pérez Jiménez's military dictatorship fell, the premieres of which were described as "remarkable" and just preceding the diminishing influence that democracy had on filmmaking.

[2] Peter Rist describes the film as "serious" and "realist", and an insight on how awful poverty in the Venezuelan capital is.