The boys' addiction gets worse, and their lives predictably spiral out of control, leading to violence and death. This leads to an extraordinary scene where the mother places the baby's pacifier in its mouth covered with heroin to stop it from crying. They visit an Argentine prostitute, and their dealer has a pregnant wife whose baby is soon born with heroin withdrawal. Both boys are heroin addicts who start to deal drugs to pay for their habit. The young man, named Paco, has a best friend, named Urko, whose father is a left wing politician who is agitating for Basque autonomy. He is the son of a policeman, apparently a militaristic arm of the fascist government. "El Pico" (translated as "The Needle") centres around a young man in the Basque country in Bilbao, northern Spain. Despite its success it was also one of the last movies Eloy de la Iglesia made, as he succumbed to the same addiction as his characters. "El Pico" was the most successful of a swathe of films about drug addiction and juvenile delinquency that came out of Spain in the late '70s and early '80s.
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