A Common Crime 2021
Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.
Cecilia is too afraid one night to let her housekeeper's son into the house. The next day his dead body is found.
An old man, facing a housing problem, goes back to the place where he was raised. He starts to lose his mind, his memory slowly fades and confusion installs in his brain as he travels through those known landscapes.
During the military dictatorship of Argentina in 1977, office clerk Francisco Sanctis, his wife and children lead a quiet life in Bueno Aires. But one day an old friend calls him after 20 years, asking him to sign something. When they meet, she explains that she actually wants him to warn two of her friends that are about to be kidnapped by the army, and Francisco must decide if he wants to risk everything for two strangers.
Persephone is released from prison after three years. Returning to the neighborhood will present him with a new hell. Without a job, she gets the help of Juana who shelters her in her house and with whom she looks for some changa to survive.
Marlene lives in the house of the old woman she takes care of. When her friend disappears, she escapes every night to investigate. The clues lead her to night jobs in which she meets other women who, like her, have developed their gifts into superpowers.
Mara, a young speleologist, lives with her father Horacio, a rural veterinarian. Both emigrated to Italy from Argentina decades ago. Horacio makes one last trip, curing animals in the mountains, before dying. Mara, some time after her departure, meets Roy, a Dominican boy who arrives in town seeking asylum. They become friends. She helps him speak Italian and teaches him about the caves. Together, they take an excursion inside a cave. There Mara will meet her dead father and they will talk about what they never talked about before. Film about close ties, identity, uprooting and the force of nature.
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