Sosa is a lawyer who haunts hospital waiting rooms hoping to represent the victims of traffic accidents in insurance claims. When he falls in love with ambulance medic Luján, he tries to leave this dark business but the shady law firm that he works for won’t let him off that easily.
Acting
Darín's hangdog desperation meets Gusmán's exhausted tenderness.
Cinematography
Buenos Aires as rotting organism, all florescent hospitals and rain.
Direction
Trapero's documentary roots make exploitation feel sickeningly real.
Director
Pablo Trapero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Argentina's 'seguros' fraud epidemic was so rampant that real lawyers like Sosa were nicknamed 'caranchos' — vultures — making this social realism disguised as thriller.
Darín and Gusmán were actually married; Trapero made her pregnant on camera, then used her real exhaustion and nausea for Luján's character.
KR
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