Alicia Guerra

It’s Friday night in Asunción and the temperature is 40ºC. Víctor, a 17-year-old wheelbarrow-boy, dreams of becoming famous and covets a cell phone in Mercado 4. He is offered the chance to deliver seven boxes with unknown contents in exchange for $100. This sounds like an easy job but it soon gets complicated. Something in the boxes is highly coveted. Víctor and his persecutors find themselves caught up in a crime they know nothing about.

After her girlfriend is imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection.

A debt-ridden father takes advantage of an unforeseen situation to disappear and live off the grid under a false identity. But a chance event occurs and the temptation to want to know his family resurfaces.

A high-ranking officer infiltrates groups peacefully organizing to demand the release of detained relatives. Argentina was under military rule from 1976 to 1983, a period in which tens of thousands of people disappeared. The abovementioned groups were giving rise to a form of civil resistance at the heart of the dictatorship that was running the country.

Tere and her son, Esteban, break the distance between Asuncion and Madrid in a video call around 8 pm. The circumstances of isolation during the quarantine bring them closer than perhaps ever before.