Based on the early life of Juan Carlos Delgado "el Pera" [es] and set in the 1970s, the plot follows the mishaps of Juan Carlos, a 9-year-old car thief and driver from Getafe, who only sees his delinquent life back on track thanks to the efforts of Tío Alberto at Leganés's Ciudad de los Muchachos school.

[2] The film is a Mediapro, Sogecine, and Estudios Picasso production,[4] and it had the participation of Telecinco, Telemadrid, TV3 and Canal+.

[4] Distributed by Soqepaq,[4] the film was released theatrically in Spain on 13 January 2006.

[7] Pere Vall of Fotogramas rating the film 2 out of 5 stars, pointing out at the writing as the film's worst, while positively singling out Mariola Fuentes and some family sequences as positive elements.

[5] Jonathan Holland of Variety deemed the film to be "an unconvincing period piece based on the true story of a kid criminal in ’70s Madrid", "studded with good moments" but failing "to develop its rich source material".