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A personal film, an intimate journey into an unknown fiction: that of Leopoldo Federico, his music, and his bandoneon. The journey is none other than the one Pauls takes internally, delving into his hidden memories and experiences, searching in the traces of an infinite music for the figure and art of Federico, along with his way of understanding tango.
The film retraces the journey of Gustav Emil Haeger's Swedish expedition (1920). Using the route defined by "Following the Indian Trails of the Pilcomayo River," the film made by the Swedish contingent in Formosa at the time, the film contrasts that past with the present-day journey.
Bruno is 33 years old, he is unemployed by choice and has entered a kind of paralysis that blocks everything: lost and with no certain destination, he wanders immersed in an indefinite void, a situation in which his enthusiasm for things has also fallen. and the people. Isabel's ghostly appearances in his life mark the three unique nights in which the film takes place.
Throughout his childhood, the filmmaker Cristian Pauls vacationed in Fortín Tiburcio. Half a century later, he returns to the small town. Against all odds, his journey –and that of the film– moves away from a nostalgic reconstruction to become an update of a distant but still tangible past.