La esencia de los otros

A young man is scammed by an engineer and an ex-hippie who promise to sell a glue that binds any surface he had invented and goes on a journey to the planet of the hippies

Sergio visits his elderly mother on her birthday after more than a year away. There, he meets María, a twenty-something girl who begins to attract him and presents him with an opportunity to reconnect with his past.

Nicolás, a retired widower, lives with his daughter, son-in-law, and grandson in a small rented home, supporting them with his meager pension. During the 2001 crisis in Argentina, Nicolás pursued his dream of building a house on a remote piece of land, just as he and his wife had dreamed. At a local cultural center, Nicolás began a free painting class despite the total opposition of his family, who considered him a hindrance to their lives.

Moisés is a retired firefighter who lives like a hermit in poverty. A keen flute player, he one day receives a visit from a debt collector demanding payment for an old debt. From that moment on, Moisés's life takes an unexpected turn.

After many years, Julia returns to her childhood home, where as a child she was sexually abused by her recently deceased father. But inhabiting that place again will force her to face her ghosts and darkest memories.

Kalima, a young foreigner just arrived in Buenos Aires, attends a job interview, without suspecting that the job is with a mysterious sect working in the human trafficking business.

In the southern part of the City of Buenos Aires there is a neighborhood that many name but do not know: Villa Lugano. There, the urban coexists with the village, which still survives, in much more than an afternoon nap or some grandparent's story. 100 years after its foundation, Lugano continues to build its identity.

A demanding and refined literature professor who lives with his secretary in a remote house in Greater Buenos Aires is about to publish an important work, for which he hires an assistant. His seductive secretary begins a romantic relationship with the assistant, which ultimately affects the professor's health. Filled with hatred and envy, he now unleashes the worst of himself on his new employee.

Paulo began working in a greengrocery owned by a lesbian couple, Cecilia and Gabi. Paulo soon falls in seduction games of Cecilia. He falls madly in love, not realizing his homosexuality, and not imagine either the problem that is messing with Gabi.

Romina and Cony live immersed in their work, spending their days in a bread factory in the suburbs of the town where they grew up. The woman who runs the oven is absent that day, and they have to take over. They are tired of the routine and the pressures, while the forest surrounding the factory invites them to dream of a different future.

Olga and Horacio, two work colleagues, decide to go out one night and end up having sex in the car in the middle of the forest. The next day they discover that they cannot leave the place, since they are in an area with strange magnetisms because it is controlled by some type of unknown intelligence.

Ivana a women of about 25, lives with her boyfriend Gregorio,a temperamental only son who loves his mother. Ivana is obligated by Gregorio on a strict diet because he see her prone to gaining weight. However, a sharo turn in her life will have to face his worst enemy: herself.

In the late 1970s, at the height of the Argentine civil-military dictatorship, a group of more than 60 Argentines who had been exiled in various European countries left their homes once again to move with their families to Mozambique, a recently independent former Portuguese colony mired in a terrible civil war. Their goal: to work as volunteers in the construction of the Socialist State promoted by the African leader Samora Machel against the interference of the then racist South African government.

Wendy is a happily married woman leading a normal life, until horrific nightmares and visions and the arrival of a mysterious young woman reveal a dark past, filled with horror, violence, witchcraft and death.

The piqueteros have seized power, and the country is plunged into chaos. Olga and Horacio, a bourgeois couple, escape through a forest trying to reach the river and cross to Punta del Este. Along the way, they find an abandoned house that once belonged to a revolutionary group. They decide to take refuge there for a few days, knowing that the piqueteros' threat is still latent.

An old man in need of medical care is referred to an unofficial medical center in the outskirts of the city by a shady nurse. In the hopes of getting what he needs, the man ends up in the hands of a corrupt and sinister medical association of doctors who engage in organ trafficking in their spare time.