In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.
Acting
Federico Luppi and Mercedes Sampietro's lived-in chemistry — decades in every glance.
Direction
Aristarain's patient observation; nothing rushed, nothing wasted.
Director
Adolfo Aristarain
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Argentina's 2001-2002 economic collapse; the crisis isn't backdrop, it's co-star. The film's quiet desperation mirrors millions of real retirements destroyed overnight.
Aristarain called this his 'anti-road movie' — instead of young people finding themselves through travel, it's elders finding home through staying put. The Spain trip never happens, and that's the point.
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