Celeste Lois

Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.

Nélida is in her 70’s and has lived alone in her small apartment for so long, that the pandemic that puts the world into confinement brings no change to her routine, except for her daughter’s visits becoming more frequent. Until the day she gets a call from a radio show that intends to introduce her to a love suitor, dynamiting the wall she built around herself and cornering her own perception of reality.

A series of recordings that Antoine de Saint-Exupéry sent to filmmaker Jean Renoir are the starting point for reconstructing the love affair that the French writer and aviator established with the "Argentine princesses" Edda and Suzzane Fuchs, protagonists of the chapter "Oasis" in his book Tierra de Hombre and inspiration for his masterpiece The Little Prince.

Ana waits for her dad to come by and finally listen to what she has been longing to tell him for years. When she understands he is not coming, Ana will reach out to every piece of technological device at her grasp, in attempt to have that talk. But technology will fail. Or maybe what will fail is the human capacity for communication.