Two old friends reunite in a psychiatric hospital to solve a death — and exhume their own past.
Overflow Psychiatric hospital. Lighting in a stormy night's sky. With almost 12 years without seeing each other, Marcos Ferro (36) and Ivan Manusovich (37) meet the morning after having heard the news about Martin Tayal's death, Who was once a member of Journalism and writing workshop in the hospital. They were both part of the workshop's creation and of a very recognized and conflict magazine which one generated therapeutic, institutional and social effects that proved to be too much for it. The words heard through the phone the day before make them need to find out what happened to Martin and his body. While discussing about this very same subject a word makes them remember about the beginnings of the workshop.
Acting
Mirás and Callau's weathered chemistry carries decades of unspoken blame.
Cinematography
Storm-lit hospital corridors that breathe like characters.
Director
Alex Tossenberger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film mirrors Argentina's 2001 economic crisis through institutional collapse — psychiatric hospitals as microcosms of national trauma.
Director Alex Tossenberger based the workshop on real journalism programs in Buenos Aires psychiatric hospitals during the 1990s.
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