An accidental meeting between a French woman who goes to South America to adopt a baby and an Argentinian woman who with her small son leaves their hopeless village in search for a better life changes both of their lives forever.
Acting
Bouquet's brittle privilege crashes against Rovera's raw desperation.
Cinematography
Bleached Argentine highways that swallow hope whole.
Direction
Solanas refuses to let anyone off the moral hook.
Director
Juan Diego Solanas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Argentina's 2001-2002 economic collapse, the film channels real desperation from the 'piquetero' era of mass unemployment and rural exodus.
Solanas (son of political filmmaker Fernando Solanas) deliberately cast Bouquet — a French cinema icon — to implicate European audiences in the transaction they're watching.
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