Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, live in a remote Argentine valley with their 12-year-old son Ernesto. Mario runs a school and a wool cooperative; Ana, a doctor, heads a clinic with Nelda, a progressive nun. Into this idealistic family comes Hans, a jaded Spanish geological engineer -- surveying the land for the local patron, to see if it can be dammed for hydro-electric power, which would drive the peasants from the land into the cities.

1 History of entanglements in the Bar Almendra in La Plata. 2 A family drama that takes place in a country house. 3 A love story on the outskirts of La Plata 4 Marginality. 5 With love...María José.