Z.U.G.A

Judges Walter Saettone and Alejandro David visit police stations and prisons every day where prisoners are housed to review their legal situations and their prison living conditions, thus guaranteeing them decent treatment and a decent life.

This documentary follows the formation of a housing cooperative among the inhabitants of La Lechería, who came to buy land in Mataderos to build decent housing. After years of organization and work, events precipitate: the eviction of the property arrives and with it, the promise of government compensation. But the residents of Mataderos form a front to reject the new residents as “villeros”, with a press campaign and attacks.

Ábalos travels to an innovative penitentiary facility in a remote location. There, the military doctor who runs the complex will reveal to him the dark nature of the control techniques applied to its inmates, based on dream manipulation.

At only eleven years old he chooses to be a priest. Then will come the clear option for the poorest in the Martillo Chico villa in Mar del Plata, in La Rioja together with Monsignor Enrique Angelleli, and in Buenos Aires together with the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. In a democracy, he is sentenced to twenty years in prison, in the maximum security prison of Caseros and Ezeiza, until his conditional release. But why was Fray Antonio Puigiané really imprisoned?

Follows a man as he silently goes through the desperation of a break-up. He aimlessly wanders the streets, meeting the night people of Buenos Aires; loners, thieves, fugitives, homeless, suicides, lovers and the ghost of the lost lover.