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A divorced taxi driver shows up with a black eye at the home of his ex-wife’s new family; he’s been invited to dinner and he desperately wants to reconnect with his young daughter. A professional magician’s car breaks down and he ends up spending an emotionally intense night with a young, widowed toll booth worker. A singer songwriter serving a lengthy prison sentence is released for one night to perform at a local community centre. These three deeply engaging stories about yearning for connection unfold in parallel, one New Year’s Eve in a small town in central Uruguay, balancing the universality of human suffering with a powerful sense of hope.
Lucio is 10 years old and lives in the country with his parents. Play solitaire in the bush and record the sounds of nature with an old radio recorder. He dreams of going to town when he grows up and working on television. In fact, this is the only means that connects you to that other part of the world that you are eager to discover. One day two subjects who come from the city come to his house by accident, one of them is called Carlos, he is 30 years old and works on television. This will be a very important day for Lucio.
In the middle of a desolate countryside, the father of a family must figure out how to keep his home warm.
The Patagonian steppe is battered by a grey wind... Mora is 13 years old and intends to become a "gaucho". She questions the school and asserts her individuality towards her parents, two environmentalists from Italian-speaking Switzerland whose dream of autonomy turns into a nightmare. Mora goes deep into the steppe to help the only friend she has, Nazareno, an old Mapuche who has lost his horse, Zahorí.
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The film follows Agustina as she finds the videotapes that her father Jaime recorded before the accident that took his life. The family secrets surrounding Jaime push Agustina to get involved. Her search will reveal a story marked by sexuality and political activism.
