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In a remote location in the mountains of Argentina, a Catholic monastery maintains a home for abandoned and orphaned boys. The movie takes advantage of all the usual cinematic opportunities - sexually frustrated and repressed adolescent boys, plenty of nudity, boys masturbating, etc. When the priests take the boys on a camping trip to a bucolic valley in the mountains, the boys discover a patch of psilocybin mushrooms, so, of course, all the boys eagerly eat lots of mushrooms. When the priests discover what is going on, they decide to take some of the mushrooms also. Everyone has a wonderful trip, spacing out peacefully, admiring the astonishing beauty of the flowers and the cows. No problem at all. There were several scenes where the boys were apparently smoking cannabis. At one point they put a joint between the lips of a statue of Jesus; all in good fun. There is more plot going on, some of it pretty dark. One clue is when the false priest preaches a sermon, saying, "When someone hits you, don't turn the other cheek - hit them back harder !"