Lolo and the Kid follows a swindler and a child who con the rich until an incident changes their lives forever. The film is now streaming on Netflix.
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Plot summary
Alone and dejected, an old man named Lolo was prepared to take his own life when he found a baby on the streets. The baby had been abandoned by his parents.
Lolo then started raising the baby as his own child and worked hard to provide for him. The baby, whom Lolo named Kid, gave Lolo a reason to live and be happy.
Kid grows up considering Lolo his grandfather. The two of them swindle rich people together. Lolo finds their targets—rich people who do not have kids and are most likely to take pity on Kid.
They camp outside the houses of their targets and pose as homeless people. Their targets take pity on Kid and Lolo and usually invite them into their homes.
Kid takes the opportunity to charm their targets, which leads to them offering to adopt Kid to give him a better life. Lolo agrees to their offer, but not without showing reluctance.
Lolo leaves with the money he is offered by their targets. Then, at night, Kid steals valuables from the people who have adopted him and meets with Lolo outside the house.
Lolo and Kid sell the stolen goods and celebrate by going to the amusement park and karaoke before finding their next target.
While Lolo and Kid are able to get by swindling the rich, Lolo cannot give Kid everything he wants, like taking him to the beach for vacation.
Additionally, Kid wishes to learn to read, but Lolo cannot afford to send him to school. He still tries his best to make Kid a good person.
One day, Lolo and Kid plan to swindle a woman who lost her parents at a very young age. She was able to succeed in life because she was adopted and educated by someone.
Lolo and Kid steal from her as well, even though she offers to let them stay at her house and educate Kid. The woman sees them running away but does not try to stop them.
Lolo and Kid’s encounter with the woman leads to Kid’s desire for education growing, and Lolo starts realizing that he cannot give Kid the life he wants.
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The accident that changes everything
Lolo and Kid’s next target is a gay couple. The men bring them into their house and adopt Kid. As usual, Lolo agrees to the adoption, and Kid robs them at night.
The couple catches Lolo and Kid stealing, and while running away from them, Kid gets into a car accident. Kid is then taken to the hospital.
The couple accuses Lolo of using Kid for money and makes him leave. Kid, who has not sustained serious injuries, finds a way to sneak out and follow Lolo.
The accident makes Lolo realize that he needs to stop involving Kid in his cons. He then takes Kid to the beach for the vacation he always wanted.
While Lolo recalls how Kid changed his life, Kid spends the day laughing and playing, unaware that his first vacation with Lolo will also be his last.
The separation
The next target Lolo chooses to swindle is a couple who lost their son to cancer. The couple is still recovering from their loss and wants to adopt Kid.
Like Lolo in the past, the couple has lost their will to live, and adopting Kid will give them a reason to live and be happy.
Lolo agrees to let them adopt Kid, but unlike every other time, he does not plan to con them. When Kid steals their belongings and meets Lolo at night, Lolo refuses to take him with him.
Lolo wants Kid to be the couple’s son, go to school, and live the life he always wanted. He tries to make Kid understand that he does not want Kid to become a swindler like him.
He tells Kid that he loves him and leaves him crying, hoping that Kid will understand his reasons and forgive him one day.
The separation from Lolo makes Kid deeply upset. No matter what Kid’s new parents buy him, they fail to make him happy, as all he wants is to live with Lolo.
At night, Kid sneaks out of the house to look for Lolo, but Lolo is nowhere to be found, leaving Kid with no choice but to accept the decision Lolo made for him.
The reunion and final goodbye
As Lolo had expected, Kid leads a life of comfort with his new parents. Although his parents love him and he loves them, he cannot help but keep waiting for Lolo to show up.
He grows up to have a good job. One day, Lolo contacts Kid, and they reunite, but it is under unfortunate circumstances: Lolo is in the hospital, and he is dying.
Kid and Lolo spend the day doing all the things they used to do when they lived together. They visit the shop where they used to sell stolen items, and Lolo sells his beloved camera.
They then go to karaoke and sing the same song they always sang. Lolo passes away while singing with Kid. Following his death, Kid finds a box full of photographs in Lolo’s bag.
Apart from the photographs that Lolo took of himself with Kid, there are also photographs of Kid after Lolo left him under the care of his new parents.
It turns out that Lolo had been watching over Kid from afar all this time. He never really left Kid; he was always there, taking photographs of Kid during every important step of his life.
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