A circus dwarf, imprisoned for a crime of passion, seeks a release from both his incarceration and his diminutive body while wooing a porn actress.

This is Buenos Aires, its characters, its history, its reality. A complex movie for a complex city, depicted in the character's language, and in their relationship with the present and the past

The Huge are dwarf superheroes who inhabit Huge City, within another dimension. The problem arises when Max (who once was also a Huge) uses the technology of his former companions to enter the world of humans and, under the nickname of The Lord of Evil, become the leader of a criminal gang that kidnaps the Hour Officer to ask for 10,000 kilos of gold as a ransom.

"For her next movie, De eso no se habla, María Luisa Bemberg needs a dwarf". That was an ad on local media during preproduction of the movie that would become the last od the director. Among the peoplewho responded the ad was Alejandra Podestá, who ended up getting the leading role along Marcello Mastroianni. Through testimonies of varios friends, members of the crew and the words by Alejandra herself, who was brutally murdered in 2011, A Beautiful Dream tells us the story of the making of the film and the relationship between Bemberg and Podestá, which winds up being a tribute to both women.