Héctor Díaz Peña

In a dimly lit bar, former psychiatrist Juan Carlos Castro drinks to forget the landmark case he handled at the country's most famous psychiatric hospital—a case that dragged him into his current state of ruin and decline. "The Gómez case was the strangest thing," he tells anyone willing to listen, and Luis Peralta happens to be one of them. At the bar, Peralta listens to the mysterious story the psychiatrist repeats over and over. Eventually, unable to hide his astonishment at the fantastic tale, Peralta laughs uncontrollably, all the while feverishly calculating how to turn the situation to his advantage. Is it all a game? Is it all just imagination? Or is it all real?

In the middle of the 19th century, in a fort on the Pampean frontier, the Carbajal family -father and son- are left abandoned in a cell after a raid of Indians ravaged the place. Miguel, with very little strength, tries to keep his father, who is seriously wounded, alive.