Twelve year old Juana goes to a British school in the outsides of Buenos Aires, where she fails both socially and academically. A week away from the exams that will determine her future in the institution, she is surrounded by the same routine, going to class and trying to pull her social life back together, with useless attempts in between. Juana goes through these strange days apparently feeling indifferent towards the situation.

Alberto, evangélico que trabaja como jardinero en una casa adinerada de Santo Domingo, interrumpe su trabajo para ir al velatorio de su padre. Allí se entera que su padre en realidad ha sido asesinado y su familia espera que el se haga cargo de su matador. Entre rituales y crisis existenciales se inscribe un nuevo artículo en la ley de Talión “diente por diente…” ahora Cocote por Cocote.

Ramira arrives in Buenos Aires after abandoning her newborn child in Misiones. After two years in the city, she returns to her hometown where she is confronted with her child and her mother. The reunion that ensues between the three is a tense one, full of expectations, doubts and misunderstandings in the middle of intense cultures, colors and sounds from the tropic.

Aboard a cruise ship on the high seas, Window Boy, a staff cleaner on the ship, discovers a door mysteriously leading to an apartment in Montevideo. In it lives Elsa, a somewhat solitary girl. Meanwhile, a group of thugs on board the cruiser try to track down a Chinese slave trader, but he seems to have disappeared.

In the peripheries of New York City, Gladys lives with her daughter. They do not know anything else but how to live in the same space, in the same house, a place that has become the everything of their lives. Hidden from a city that also hides from them, it only manifests itself in its appearance. It is a New York that shrinks to four walls, where Caribbean Spanish is spoken and that briefly refers to itself in two or three badly pronounced words of English.

In 1985 the lake flooded everything. How does one recreate a story that carries an extinguished past and a present that doesn’t exist anymore? There are still some fragments of memory remaining: a boy, a girl, a train station; every image is isolated. Everything is subject to the possibility of telling a story.

Can one film something that is there and not there? Loss immersed in day to day life. A send off, someone bidding farewell.

An unidentified man, X, abducts a young woman who lives in the privileged suburbs of Buenos Aires, and takes her to the countryside. Here he sets her free, but only for a fleeting moment, in order to shoot her with his hunting rifle. A crime without motivation. An anonymous man. A man that leaves no traces behind except for some distant shadows through the night.

Fishing in Esperanza is a poetic short film about hope. In different levels the film tells the story about a filmmaker, a fisherman, a community and a society that are all waiting for a basic incident to take place.

A day separates two nights in Zapiola. Out of boredom, two youngsters spy on a family living on a chicken farm. They play games in hiding, and imagine stories about their lives together. When they turn their heads away, no one is watching.