Isabel de Estrada

Estela Canto and Jorge Luis Borges meet in 1944. She is an intelligent and beautiful woman. He, still an unknown writer, is shy and very attached to his mother. They fall in love, or at least Borges does.

A 16-year-old young man, is fond of weapons and the manufacture of explosives. He participates in robberies and is persecuted by the Police, so his group of friends dissolves and he goes to live in another neighborhood and starts working in a bookstore. Dissatisfied, without expectations and full of resentment, Silvio tries to set the place on fire and flees through the city