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I swear to you that this that I am going to tell is absolutely true: a daring sparrow, a girl who smokes cigarettes, a forest and Julián, in January in Buenos Aires.
Eleven young film-makers got together to collaborate in this atypical project. Atypical not only because of its technical specs, but because of its narrative structure. There are several scenes with only the city in common, and more as a conceptual presence at that than as a precise geography. None of those scenes contains a single "story": Each one of them is part of a larger situation that we cannot see, as though the beginning and end of each "story" had to be filled in by the audience.
Carolina and Damian were made for each other, but they have different ideas about sex and love. Can they remain together?
Two friends walk together through the city and through their moods, ignoring everything that happens around them; the universe closes for each one in her lament, in her monologue of love. In this recurrence the reason for the pain is emptied and only the trace, the desolation, remains.
Within the framework of an office, a typical presenter shows us -on the one hand- the dramatizations and "scientific" foundations while -on the other- the fantasies and actions of its protagonists escape the genre, revealing an absurd story of power and concealment.
Carmen and Elena Iturrioz are sisters and partners in a laboratory inherited from their parents. Both carry out the cases that reach the laboratory, together with a team of collaborators. Each episode will stage a new story that arrives at the laboratory at the hands of characters seeking to find out their identity, recognize a son or a brother, gain access to an inheritance or identify a genetic disease, among others. they will reveal who they are; they will get closer to their own personal and family identity.
Rubén, a humble healer, attends to his patients with extravagant and disturbing healing techniques. With the appearance of Benjamín, he becomes more popular and gains a cult following. But that fame will end up being his own hell.
Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.