Potosi, Bolivia.
The Benabides family. When their father, a miner, died 5 years ago of silicosis, five children live with their mother in a one room, two bed house. They sleep three to a bed. Lucas, 12, when he is not working in the mines attends class sporadically. He is basically illiterate and sits in the same class with his younger brothers Beimar 8 and Bimer, 6, at the San Cristobal school, struggling to cope ina class where he is a head taller than the rest of the kids.
