After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
Direction
Solanas turns Buenos Aires into a living wound.
Score
Goyeneche's tango performances ache with history.
Cinematography
Shadow-soaked streets that breathe with regret.
Director
Fernando E. Solanas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Argentina's fragile return to democracy, the film captures a nation collectively exhaling and realizing it doesn't know how to breathe.
Roberto Goyeneche, the legendary tango singer playing Amado, was actually dying during filming—his frailty in performance is unfeigned mortality.
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