Dora Baret

Julio and El Polaco, in distant years, were inseparable friends in their hometown, near Necochea. The life of the first was governed by obedience to his mother, the despotism of his uncle and a style of honesty. El Polaco, on the other hand, was closer to marginalization and violence. Julio, turned into a businessman, takes root in the United States. The Pole continued his course in the place of those sometimes very cruel antics.

Set amidst a backdrop of political unrest and oppression in Argentina following the coup of the late 1980s, this impressive drama dwells upon a May-December love affair between a boy and a woman suspected of political subversion. When seventeen-year-old Pedro defiantly befriends political fugitive Sofia and provides her shelter, he creates a deep rift between himself, his family and his friends. Sofia is hunted because she was at one time in love with a Communist sympathizer. At first the relationship is purely platonic as Pedro helps her recover from a 23-day long flight that has left Sofia weak and starving for sleep. But as time passes, Pedro becomes increasingly involved with her and his schoolwork begins to suffer. Gradually he falls in love with her and she with him. But as the political situation grows more oppressive and the government steps up its search for subversives, the two begin making desperate plans to flee the country.

A young businessman, owner of a major publishing house, is found shot to the head. Everything suggests a murder, since he was doing a journalistic investigation about a shady business.

During the yellow fever epidemic of 1870, a fugitive enters the mansion where three women had locked themselves in.

A man goes to a sorcerer to hasten his reunion with a woman, and the sorcerer gives him a mask that accelerates time.

The story of a sixty-year-old woman, who is introducing us in an amalgam of sensations, emotions and deep experiences through profound and exhaustive thoughts, recounted in an intimate tone.