Back to Stay

Martina and Sofia are sisters. They wake up one morning in great heat, eat breakfast on the patio and remain there all day watching TV. They eagerly await a call from their mother who lives abroad.

Short. A remote house in the Cape Cod area, october 1962…

At the height of her career, Lina, a 34-year-old Argentine stylist, is driven by a sudden impulse after an award ceremony in Switzerland. Back in Buenos Aires, she says nothing, but something in her has shifted – quiet and invisible, it subtly unravels a past she thought she had left behind.

Inès, a professional photographer, decides to complete a book she is working on before she gives birth to her first child. This photography project, related to the memories of her childhood, always brings her back to the same place: the family home in southern Argentina that shaped her youth and forged her character. It also contains the only photo Inès still has of her with her father, before he disappeared as a victim of the military dictatorship. This photo is the starting point of a jigsaw puzzle of fragmentary memories about the relationships Inès had with her mother and her brother.

A film about the return of a woman to a house where a drama took place – the return to her memories, her fears and her intimacy.

In 1810 in Buenos Aires, the revolution is at its height, fuelled by Rousseau's ideas. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away, in the south of the country, a rain of ash disrupts a French expedition and a young woman, Marie Archange is left behind. All alone, in her head she hears Rousseau's minuet in G Minor, which gives her the strength she needs to continue on her way.