Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.
Acting
Rita Cortese's volcanic, tender performance anchors everything.
Writing
Dialogue that stutters beautifully across three languages.
Director
Paula Hernández
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Argentina's massive Italian and German immigrant communities rarely intersect on screen; Hernández weaponizes their shared outsider status.
Rita Cortese improvised most of her insults; Witzke's confusion is genuine—he didn't speak Spanish during filming.
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