En la oscuridad

Néstor Varzé is a karate master from the outskirts of Buenos Aires who’s obsessed with samurai history and culture. And although as luck would have it he lives in another time and far away from Japan, he considers himself an heir to those ancient warriors.

Erasmo Chambi is a Bolivian immigrant who survives on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, giving wrestling shows at local clubs. In his home country, he was a legendary wrestler: there were trading cards, posters and action figures of his character, El Ciclón (The Cyclone), which today are only relics in a forgotten drawer. Nowadays he trains his son to be his successor.

Víctor Maytland is approaching the end of his career. After years of work, his producer decides to stop financing his pornographic films, overflowing with narrative ideas and social content. His curious craft seems to be dying. In the shadows of his studio, during nights of desperation and obsessive writing, surrounded by papers and clouds of tobacco, he begins to shape a new project, the most absurd and crazy of his life. And so, with the meager resources he manages to gather, he sets out to undertake one last challenge: to make one last film, this time based on his memories as a young Peronist activist.

Bruno Gelber, an acclaimed Argentine pianist, lets us know his story, his love for music, his natural talent and his feverish work. A lover of soap operas and astrology, he deeply wishes to be the most beautiful man in the world, in a portrait that hides pain and contradictions.

In the 40's in Argentina, during General Peron's government an experiment took place. It's objective was to create a new and ideal latin-american society. But that experiment ended abruptly and everyone involved was exterminated.