Ileana López

Uruguay 1966. Aurelio Saavedra, un politicien influent, ramène chez lui Masángeles, sa fille illégitime, après le suicide de sa mère. Aurora, sa femme, ne s’en remettra jamais. Masángeles réalise que dans cette maison de fous égoïstes, elle doit s’adapter pour survivre, tandis qu’au dehors, le pays souffre d’une guerre civile entre des guérilleros amateurs et des militaires cruels. Face à cette situation, chaque membre de la famille adopte une position différente

A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her victims with the handle of her umbrella that she make them think is a real revolver.

Elisa rêve d'installer un salon de coiffure dans un des quartiers les plus chics de Montevideo. D'un caractère plutôt rebelle, elle quitte avec ses deux petits enfants la maison de sa mère et envoie promener García, son patron et amant, qui se complaît dans une situation ambiguë. En moins de vingt-quatre heures, la voilà sans toit, sans "homme", sans travail et sans argent.

Ethel is a 60-year-old psychoanalyst who chose to access documents declassified by the Uruguayan goverment to know the identity of the perpetrators of the death of her husband. His death occured on August 17th 1961 at a University ceremony where Che Guevara delivered one of his first speeches after the revolutionary triumph of the Cuban revolution. The bullet that killed a history teacher was considered a failed attack against Che Guevara planned by the CIA.

Mario and Silvia are a typical Montevidean middle class couple, going through the trauma of retirement. Due to Mario’s oversight in what was to be one of his last operations a small dog dies. Shortly after, Mario and Silvia find that thieves have entered their house. They have no choice but to leave and stay at their daughter’s house, where they will enter a spiral of insecurity and paranoia that will drag them to violence and nonsense.