In the aftermath of the May Revolution, which sparked the end of Spanish colonial rule and the establishment of the first independent government in Buenos Aires, revolutionary leader Juan José Castelli is given the order to oversee the execution of former viceroy Santiago de Liniers. This pushes Castelli into a deep moral conflict, forcing him to confront the tension between revolutionary justice and personal conscience, as well as the human cost of political change.

这是一部极妙的电影。整部电影都以一种倒叙的手法进行拍摄；讲得是两姐妹紧张的关系，一个在1975年里是政治上活跃的学生，一个在阿根廷是激进团体的成员。

After his bike and money gets stolen from him, Lucio struggles to find his place in the surrounding reality of Argentina in the 1990s A slowly told story of adolescence of an outcast and a tribute to the neorealistic classics of the 1950s.