小说家丹尼尔（奥斯卡·马丁内兹 Oscar Martínez 饰）从刚出道起事业就顺风顺水，如今更是获得了诺贝尔文学奖的殊荣，攀登上了职业的顶峰，然而这荣誉却并未带给他满足，恰恰相反，丹尼尔担心名声和财富会夺走他文学创作上的灵感与锋芒。
一晃眼五年过去，丹尼尔热度不减，邀约和奖项不断，可冷淡而又避世的他只教助手一一回绝。一封来自小镇萨拉斯的信吸引了丹尼尔的注意，萨拉斯是他阔别已久的故乡，如今邀请他踏上故土，接受“杰出公民”的奖项，在未告知媒体和朋友们的情况下，丹尼尔独自踏上了返乡的旅途，在那里，他再度见到了曾经的恋人艾琳（安德丽娅·弗里杰里奥 Andrea Frigerio 饰），如今的艾琳早已经嫁为人妻，而她的丈夫正是丹尼尔的旧友安东尼奥（达迪·布列瓦 Dady Brieva 饰）。

采访中一位成功的富商Humberto正毫不令色得分享着他的致富之道，全剧就此开篇极富讽刺意味。实际上，Humberto并不满足于财富夹带的快感，他真正奢求的是金钱无法置换的名誉。为此，他将资本大手伸向了他未曾涉及的影视行业,妄想通过投资拍摄一部佳作来获取社会各界的认可。物质与精神的冲突就此悄无声息得串联起了四个人的命运。

《杰出公民》导演加斯顿·杜帕拉特最新力作。阿图罗斯尔瓦，一个圆滑势利的画廊主，对布宜诺斯艾利斯有着将近痴迷的偏爱。伦佐纳维尔，一个乖僻厌世的画家，对时兴艺术不闻不问，声名过后早已被世界遗忘。二人观念个性处处相悖，且随时间流逝矛盾愈发激烈，在这段积灰的友谊即将告终之时一场 车祸让阿图罗不得不回到无依无靠的伦佐身边。回温四十年的漫长过往两个老朋友走到了最终的和解，老画家的悲观绝望驱使阿图罗找到杜杜，一个颇有手腕的国际收藏家，试图向其销售画作，回转局势。尝试失败后，他们想到了一个疯狂极端，注定将撼动艺术界并永远的改变他们一生的主意。

本片以古怪幽默的角度检视阿根廷的文化、习俗和美食，并展示了该国既是膳食又是仪式的传统烧烤。

Leonardo, a successful industrial designer, lives with his family in an architectural wonder, a midcentury Le Corbusier home. One morning, he wakes to an irksome noise and is appalled to discover that workmen next door are constructing a large window that faces directly into his home. Leonardo protests, using a number of excuses (privacy, building codes, his wife), in an attempt to coerce his neighbor, Victor, into scrapping his plan. But Victor just wants a patch of sun to catch some rays. Thus, one man’s light is another man’s blight.
Enamored of architecture, the film is meticulously designed. Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat give it a carefully crafted weirdness as well as a figurative quality. Its caustic humor comes in contemplating why the window completely undermines Leonardo. Does it reveal his arrogance, affectation, and lack of compassion; or dispel his bourgeois illusion of power? The Man Next Door offers a biting critique of moral shallowness—and what happens when thou dost not love thy neighbor’s window.