La vendedora de rosas (The Rose Seller) is a 1998 Colombian film directed by Víctor Gaviria, who also co-wrote the script.

[2][3] The film is notable for young children who never acted before, but lived on the streets of Medellin, Colombia, to portray the characters.

It follows a young girl named Andrea (Mileider Gil), who after a fight with her mother, flees to stay with her best friend Monica (Leidy Tabares), an orphaned rose seller.

Some of them are still alive but living in tough conditions, such as Mileider Gil, who went on to play a small role in “Rosario Tijeras”.

[citation needed] At Christmas time in Medellín, impoverished girl Andrea flees from her home after a beating from her mother and looks for Mónica, a rose seller who also fled her family after her grandmother died.

In Barrio Triste, a poor and dangerous neighborhood, Mónica leads a group of friends who are immersed in a life of drug use and prostitution.

In the city, Andrea starts selling roses like her friends while Judy prostitutes herself to buy clothes.

Mónica returns to her old home where she plans to spend Christmas Eve, but after her aunt's husband tries taking advantage of her while she is napping she decides to leave again.

Meanwhile, Mónica contacts Chinga, a homeless boy, to steal some jewelry to get money for fireworks and clothing.

Mónica gets to the back of the house she grew up in, which is now in ruins, and starts hallucinating about her grandmother while under the influence of Boxer brand industrial glue.

The movie won the Premio del Público award at the 39th Cartagena Film Festival, among other national prizes.