Paso San Ignacio

A story between a 65 years old man and a woman who is thirty years younger that him. The film, explores the human relationships through fully identifiable human beings, taking also into account the prejudices, the lust of life and all those everyday defeats.

Ignacio Silva returns to his hometown, a small port in southern Argentina. There he reunites with his memories and with a friend, and meets three women who lead him to see life differently.

With testimonies from residents of the neighborhood of Dock Sud, it deals with pollution of the river, harmful smoke from chimneys, distilleries, floodplains, garbage dumps and precarious boxes.

Nora and Javier have been hired to transport a shipment of cocaine in an ambulance. With the help of Wendy, Javier's transvestite brother, they rob a part of the shipment and escape from the police. Moulded by loneliness, indifference and a lack of communication, Nora, Javier and Wendy are three youths with no future who move on the outer rim of society and are helpless in the face of a corrupt power. They hide in El Marquesado, a seaside resort built by the military on dynamited cliffs where Rodolfo and Mercedes, Javier and Wendy's parents, survive by rustling pigs and cows from neighbouring farms. The conflicts and tensions in this marginal family resurface as they are reunited in this remote place with a sinister past.