Un lado oscuro

Episodic feature film of five parts that have in common the city of Santa Fe and a terrible hot day with power outages and a varied sample of life in a small city, but rich in comedic drama and suspense.

Short film by Martín Massé

Short film included in the "Bajo Contraste" DVD combo.

Jorge works all day as a gasman. That exhausting routine gives him a heart attack. Interned, he meets a nurse and considers a new way of life that will radically change his habits.

A corpse appears in the underground tunnels of a house, or perhaps they're the dark corridors of the subway. The dead man doesn't speak, yet stories are woven around him. Just like in a novel, the characters create their own fiction, a story to tell to children, to society, or a way to imagine the missing passages of recent Argentine history. Félix the pool attendant and Kike the subway employee, both writers, take us, not without humor, to a narrative beyond the daily life: What remains to be resolved? How do you clean a pool full of frogs? Who is the dead man in the trunk? Is he one of the many people who disappeared during the dictatorship?

Two men kidnap a third on request. While new instructions deduce that they were deceived by a woman who was abandoned minutes before getting married, by them.

DOGMAN! He is a highly experienced hero who guards the streets. After losing everything he loves and has fought for since he was a teenager, he faces Charly, who will reveal himself as his creator and reality and fiction no longer have a dividing line. Faced with the loss of his own identity, DOGMAN! he will try to prevail over Charly, a strange being, who seems to be able to control everything, except his own destiny.

Celeste and Adela, driven by an urban legend, will enter a library in the middle of the night to read a sinister book that belonged to a maniacal killer. But what the girls don't expect is that the maniac's ghost will appear to tell them and make them experience the tales hidden in his book.

A young woman goes through an internal crisis when she learns that her father is dying in a distant hospital. Going to meet him to say goodbye, irreversible events happen.