Acting
Merlo was the place chosen by the López Araújo for their last family vacations. The day that the holidays end and they return to Buenos Aires, the parents will be separated. And the children will alternately see their father and mother. During the holidays the wife tries to live as if they were still a happy marriage.
Barbara is a teenager overwhelmed by her parents' relationship, by the contradictions between her desires and the society she lives in, by love, heartbreak, and misunderstandings. One early morning, she drives 100 kilometers back from a party in Villa Mercedes with her boyfriend Federico, two friends, and a lot of alcohol. Amidst death, helplessness, and incomprehension, her 80-year-old grandmother Olga's story appears at the perfect moment, with the precise wisdom and understanding of a family history of Italian immigrants that repeats itself through generations; with the perfect magic and timing, and a bridge between life and death: the perfect beauty to drain so much pain.
Pilar is autistic since she was four years old, now she is 26. The father wants to send her to an Institution , but the mother refuses, this creates a rift in the couple. The family is breaking up: Alejo, the youngest son, has conflicts at school and with his friends. Pilar suffers from increasingly frequent attacks that makes their living really impossible. Finally, they put her in an Institution. She will find another way to live, but something will happen that will change the course of the family.
A former librarian plunged into misery settles in a shanty town, where he will discover love and witness -and to a large extent the protagonist- of extremely dramatic situations, before leaving in a new direction.
