A muddy swimming pool in a country estate and a cow marooned in a swamp constitute the backdrop where the lethargic, and probably incestuous, members of a bourgeois family in decline spend their summer. In this visceral and oppressive portrait of stagnant provincial family relations, Martel allusively denounces the inertia of the privileged white Argentinian middle-class.
Presented in partnership with Concordia University and the Consulate of Argentina in Montreal.
Wanda can no longer stand the miserable environment in which she lives. Fired from her factory job, she decides to leave her family without looking back. Wandering through the city, without the slightest resource, she ends up clinging to a shabby traveler’s clerk.
Sisters Chitarra and Léa are leaders of an all-female gang that refines oil drawn from an underground pipeline in their makeshift facility. They sell the gasoline they make to working-class motoqueiros, motorcycle-delivery riders who depend on it to survive in their Sol Nascente favela.
After reluctantly walking away from his beloved restaurant “Le Coyote”, Camilo, a Mexican-born cook in his fifties who has become a maintenance worker, finds a job opportunity in the region. His plans for the future are challenged, however, when his estranged daughter reappears in his life with her little boy.
