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Las Heras is a small town in Argentina that grew around the end of the line for the nation's rail system. These days, the city of 18,000 has gained another, more disturbing distinction -- between 1997 and 2007, thirty of Las Heras's teenagers took their own lives, and in a town of this size, that's a number which does not go unnoticed in the community. Las Heras is a town fallen on hard times -- jobs are scarce, empty buildings line the town's streets, and though plenty of people pass through town not many of them have cause to stop. But what in particular has gone so wrong in Las Heras that so many young people have chosen to kill themselves rather than move on? Filmmaker Leandro Listorti visits Las Heras and interviews a few of the survivors left behind by this small epidemic of suicide in the documentary Los Jovenes Muertos (aka Dead Youth). The film received its world premiere at the 2009 Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival.