Rafael Di Veroli

Zapa is a locksmith in a remote and quiet little town, lost somewhere deep in the province of Buenos Aires. After getting involved in a crime, his uncle, a retired policeman, bails him out and gets him a spot to join the Provincial Police as an aspiring officer in the thick urban sprawl of Greater Buenos Aires' West Zone. Soon he will get involved in a new type of corruption.

Written and directed by Julian Reboratti, this fictional feature film describes the lives of several dissimilar inhabitants of a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city during two hot and hellish Christmas days and the spiral of violence that, irrepressibly and irrepressibly, will be generated between all of them.

A cassette tape with messages was found inside a used answering machine. Through these calls, we learn the story of Enrique and María Teresa: a woman waiting for a call from a man who never answers. Ten years later, this short film is based on this completely authentic audio recording.