It's about the forms of physical and moral torture applied for political reasons in Argentina during the dictatorship that ruled from 1966 to 1973.

A woman who has been traumatized by her brother's accidental death from electrocution in the subways of Buenos Aires learns to readjust.

Set around 1910 in the Chaco region, the film depicts the plight of quebracho woodcutters, cruelly exploited by English businessmen with the support of the authorities, local police, and a paramilitary force established by the employers themselves.