A series of five inspirational stories each of which focuses on aspects of the human spirit. The Lost Children.
Jaime Jamarillo risks his life nightly, rescuing abandoned and outcast children from a living hell in the sewers of Bogota. On the streets of Colombia's capital city there are 5,000 outcast children surviving in doorways and existing on rubbish dumps. The worst off, some only babies, have sought a final desperate refuge in the darkness of rat-infested sewers, hunted by policemen and vigilantes, who shoot them and incinerate them. Only Jaime Jamarillo works to rescue them. Despite being threatened with assassination and having been kidnapped twice, he fights on, devoting all his spare time and energy to the children of the Andes, the lost children for whom he is the only help. With Desmond Wilcox.
Director Alex McCall
Producer Desmond Wilcox
A Wilcox Bulmer production for BBCtv • FEATURE: page 22
• PICTURE STORY: page 58
• TELETEXT SUBTITLES: page 888