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A small village lost in the mountains, paralyzed after the closing of a mine, receives the arrival of an outsider who offers a significant payment in exchange for a very special job: to kill the owner of the mine.
The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.
Two men of low life travel by car under a sweltering sun. They do not find the place they are looking for, lost in a remote Argentine countryside. They arrive at a workshop to ask questions and events seem to take off. The short was part of "Short Stories I" (1995).
El Chino Fernando and el Puma, two old friends who have not seen each other for some time, go out with their ex-girlfriends for a sailing trip. As a reminder of their "ex" status, differences soon surface and they decide to end the ride early. However, on the way back they are surprised by a storm that throws them off course, leaving them adrift in the middle of the widest river in the world.
Marito is a somewhat immature thirty-something who still lives with his parents. With no job or stable partner, he dedicates all his time to his failed attempts to develop an intelligent drone "that helps improve the quality of life on the planet". His mother wins a trip in a contest and convinces his father to take a few days off and thus make a long-overdue honeymoon. Filled with recommendations, they leave Marito in charge of the family's home and appliance repair shop, which is quite an institution in the neighborhood. By accident, Marito loses the family savings and, together with his best friend Peter, they do everything possible to recover them, while continuing with their original plan to take advantage of the absence of Marito's parents to organize a party with lots of alcohol, no control and "Some girl named Kimberley"
Miguel "The Tiger" Verón, a union leader from meat sector, has to risk everything against his employers and enemies from justice.
Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a favor hard to fulfill, a unexpected arrival which will change Agustín's life forever.
Nuri is 15 years old. Her mother survives as she can between her daily work, her frustrated dreams and the difficult task of raising a teenager. The teenager, without any vocation of Lolita, opens a dangerous door to situations that could be beyond his stature, his life is crossed with that of a man of 35 years, Javi professional athlete who faces the crisis of his retirement from the courts of volleyball.
Pablo Nazareno is a 26-year-old guy who works at a science laboratory in a low work. After the mysterious death of one of the employees, weird things start to happen in the laboratory, and Pablo finds out that the lab may close. The arrival of Lucía Navarro, a beautiful computing expert, makes Pablo feel that he MUST discover what is going on in the lab... but this may put him in danger. There is only one thing that can give strength to Pablo: the love he starts to feel by Lucía.
Four co-workers go to make a barbecue on an island. After getting drunk, one of them accidentally dies in a game. While attempting to dispose of the body, their job's assistant unexpectedly arrives to the island.