A story set in Uruguay in 1993. It revolves around an investigation by a law court lawyer, Julia. She's looking into the possibility that a chemist named Eugenio Barrios is being secretly sheltered in Uruguay by right-wing political powers.
Acting
Roxana Blanco's simmering restraint carries every scene.
Direction
Schroeder turns bureaucratic spaces into pressure cookers.
Director
Esteban Schroeder
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film references real Operation Condor networks that sheltered South American dictatorship figures in Uruguay through the 1990s.
Schroeder deliberately avoided thriller conventions to mirror how actual Uruguayan investigations into state crimes were bureaucratically smothered.
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