Rocío Pavón

Sebastiano teaches high school gym classes and coaches swimming. He’s got a job, a girlfriend, and a pretty normal life. But as young Martin starts to infiltrate Sebastiano’s life, his world will get turned upside down. Eerie from the first frame, this Hitchcockian thriller portrays sexual obsession with terrifying realism.

This is a story of unfulfilled love set in the port of Mar del Plata during the Falklands War. Despite the harsh climate, a fisherman sets out to sea to escape his emotions and gets lost, arriving at an area called La Campana, a mythical place where time stands still. While for him only an afternoon passes, on earth more than twenty years pass. Upon returning to the port, he discovers that the country is no longer the same and the people have changed.

It tells of the troubled and difficult relationship between Beatriz, a single mother, and her 11-year-old son Mario. The action takes place in a post-industrial neighborhood of San Martín, where Beatriz tries to earn a living as an embroiderer. When he brings shrouds to his house to embroider, the story gains tension and suspense since, according to Mario, the house is full of the dead.