The Little Match Girl adapts Hans Christian Andersen's eponymous tale to our times. Fiction and reality show that, even in the 21st century, there is a childhood as helpless as in the time when the story was written, in the 19th century.

Castillo, a young stevedore, divides his time between the carpets he has to carry, his family, and a fishing rod. One windy night, he encounters his own brutality on the fishing line.