The exhibition is based around the figure of the "quinqui", or petty criminal, coined by the juvenile delinquency film genre that experienced its zenith in Spain between 1978 and 1985. The exhibition is divided into two sections. The first analyses the figure of the quinqui as an icon, showing in detail the way the sensationalist press reported on the day-to-day lives of young delinquents, based on their arrest, the correctional institution and their subsequent escape. It depicts an aestheticism and stereotyped portrayal of criminals in the 80s, showing the way in which the phenomenon was projected, especially in the pictorial press and in films, and the way one form of media fed off the other. Characters such as El Vaquilla and El Jaro became both everyday heroes of life on the margins of society and irresistible fodder for the press. Also analysed here are amusement arcades as the main form of leisure for adolescents, the stars of the exhibition. This territory groups together that generation of young people of the seventies and the youth culture industry in an international context and its capitalist forms of consumption. It is not only the press stories which feed the films but also the films which feed the newspapers. Behind the myth, analysed and examined in-depth in the exhibition, are the real events, for which explanations and motives also need to be sought, above all in order to prevent individual tragedies in the future like those experienced by the quinquis in the 1980s, tragedies which are, in essence, evidence of a collective failure.