Your grandpa shows up with two suitcases: grief and murder. Buenos Aires just got complicated.
After the funeral of his daughter Ema, Frank Osorio travels for the first time to Buenos Aires to tell his granddaughter Alina about her mother's death. But Frank has to big secrets: the first one is about the identity of Alina's father and the second one is related to a crime.
Acting
Federico Luppi's weathered face contains multitudes of sin
Direction
Mignogna treats horror as emotional archaeology, not noise
Cinematography
Buenos Aires becomes a character—intimate, suffocating, strange
Director
Eduardo Mignogna
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mignogna was primarily known for literary dramas; this was his unexpected pivot to genre, and his final film before his death in 2006.
The film belongs to a rich Argentine tradition of gothic melodrama where family secrets rot beneath respectable surfaces—think of it as rural horror colliding with urban isolation.
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