Héctor Anglada

A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose girlfriend Sandra is pregnant, just wants to get enough cash so they can leave Argentina and get to Uruguay to start a new life. He and his friends plan one last robbery, but things don't go as planned.

A man traveling in his truck on a desolate road...

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.

Four independent short stories but they have in common that they happen in Buenos Aires during legislative elections. A candidate for deputy, Carlos Celestini floods the city with his image and can be seen in each of the stories.

Peter, un touriste allemand à la recherche d'une jeune fille à Buenos Aires, s'arrête dans un petit restaurant. Olinda, une femme d'origine italienne arrivée au pays au début des années cinquante, en est la gérante. Peter, ne retrouvant pas la demoiselle en question, va échouer au rendez-vous des coeurs abandonnés : chez Olinda. L'un et l'autre sortiront transformés d'une telle rencontre.

En quittant sa Bolivie natale, Freddy a laissé ce qui comptait le plus pour lui : sa famille. Il rejoint Buenos Aires dans l'espoir de trouver un bon travail et un logement pour faire venir les siens. Or, cette ville se révèle beaucoup moins accueillante que prévu. En effet, la capitale argentine a cessé d'être l'Eldorado où tous les rêves étaient possibles.

Manuel is a lonely young man of upper middle class who lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Due to a fortuitous circumstance, one day he discovers that his father, whom he does not know and whom he supposes living abroad, is in the country. He decides to go and look for him and on his motorcycle starts a long way south through Patagonia.

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