"We put so much effort into trying to get away from the war. You just heard about Samir, starving in the jungle for seven days just to get away from the guerrilla. And then we get here, and every damn social worker and psychologist asks us to tell war stories. We can’t ever get away from it!”

For ex-child soldiers, stories are fraught with contradiction. Narrative helps people to share experiences and lessons that seem unbelievable far from the front, but at the same time, these stories become a prison that keeps children from other futures. In Life's Roulette, fifteen Colombian teenagers used video to fictionalize their stories, transforming the experience of war into the day to day struggles on the edge of the city.

Life's Roulette treads the terrain between truth and fiction, past and future, life and art: it relates the story of boys and girls living between war and peace, but it also creates that story, allowing kids to reflect on their past and project themselves on a new future.