Argirópolis
Synopsis
A ship is shipwrecked on a desert island in the Río de la Plata. One of the crew, without name or age, wanders through the ruins of a city project that was not. The voices of the original spirits guide him through the territory, making the formation of the Argentine State emerge from the shadows, in the years of the Conquest of the Desert. How to find in the roots of the trees the memory of a place?
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