Las puertas de Taquimilán

Fran is a famous actress. One night, at a local jet set party, she discovers that her partner and manager, besides abusing her financially, cheats on her. Fran escapes from the city to the desert to travel his own “drought”. In that 72 hours trip and, in solitude, she will have to face the question: Which way do I want to take…?

The life of the poet, filmmaker, journalist, politician, teacher and union leader Homero Manzi. Since his time in prison, his friendships, the bohemian life, his time in the cinema and his memorable musical compositions.

Four groups of people with several centuries of History, in the middle of the Peruvian mountain range, more than 12,000 feet high, united by an antique ritual, take us with their voices into the renewal rite of the Q'eswachaca bridge and give us the possibility of looking to the world in a different manner.

The life of a successful television man led by Particio Podestá is cut short when, leaving a highway at a wrong turn, he is assaulted by a hooded man who, upon recognizing him, instead of robbing him, mercilessly vexes him. Since then, that sinisterly smiling mask has not let him live in peace and a television gossip driver who rummages in the folds of his life and seems to discover his secret obsesses him.

Haroldo Conti tells the story of himself. Through his literary stories, his voice rescued from archives, the fictional recreation of his anecdotes, and his characters, the film tells us about a man and his work. It is Haroldo Conti himself, that man who travels, a "homo viator," as he defined himself in the Latin he taught in schools, who guides us in this film through all his worlds: that of ideas, that of creation, that of affections. In all of them, one constant: a profound love for humanity and for life. Haroldo Conti, Homo Viator, knew how to live with intensity and conviction. But, above all, with joy.

On March 24, 2004, Patricia, a teacher from Monte Grande, saw on television President Néstor Kirchner take down the portrait of Videla and other de facto presidents of the military dictatorship from the Military College. This image repeated itself in her mind, leading her to retrieve from her box of memories the letters addressed to the soldiers of the Malvinas War, which she had saved from destruction when she worked as an administrator at the Municipality of Monte Grande. She then decided to give meaning to that event by starting to deliver the letters that had never arrived.