Writing
Esteban is a journalist who is escaping to the northern border. In the Buenos Aires of 1978, his life is in danger. The threats after one of his articles in the newspaper and his own inner conflicts push him to run away. But crossing the border is impossible. He comes back to a village near the frontier, where he stays at Father Gabriel's, a priest with ideas and attitudes of mind far from the traditional church. There he will meet Marina and Margarita, who will complete this human group with strong convictions. His stay there will be a definitive experience.
When a Coya miner confronts the foreman at a ranch in Jujuy, the owner's son tries to resolve the issues.
The drama tells the story of an Argentine elementary-school teacher sent by the government to a rural hamlet located in the northwestern province of Jujuy. It shows how he touches the lives of the villagers, especially the young and impressionable boy Verónico, whose mother died and father left to seek work when he was an infant. The film is based on a non-fiction book written by Fortunato Ramos, a rural teacher in northwest Argentina, that discusses his teaching experiences.
Víctor Terx is a young, attractive, and mysterious man, preacher and leader of a spiritualist sect. He compulsively murders his occasional partners with cruelty. Ámbar Atlas is a young stripper at a brothelly nightclub, her beauty is unconventional and her sexuality exultant and perturbing. Christlike, she uses sex as a vehicule to her own destruction due to her inevitable death drive. Ámbar and Víctor will fall in love viscerally and passionately while they become aware of the proximity of an ineluctable danger that preys on them both. Together they will tortuously travel an esoteric underworld of mediums, witches and false shamans in the search for Ámbar's miraculous "cure".
Grand Magician Tulan walks the arid desert paths, accompanied by his wife, Marta. On this crossing, they join the mysterious Jenifer, who travels to Chile for a sex change operation, the dwarf Tachuelita, the beautiful young Martita and, completing the troupe, two twin nuns, Ana and Maria. Although each of them has personal goals, they manage to join this "Brancaleone Army" at the end of the millennium. In this vast world, where loneliness and helplessness reign, each one looks at a different horizon. Some find it. Others do not.
