The beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a man who bears a striking resemblance to him.

The beautiful wife of a geologist frantically searches for her missing husband and is haunted by a man who bears a striking resemblance to him.

Carla wants to be a mother but cannot, Amanda can be a mother but chooses not to. Two women unprotected by the law, whose opposite decisions and desires about motherhood put them at risk, forcing them to extend their conception of morality. Forced by the imposition of others, cornered by society, time and justice, in the course of one night, Carla and Amanda will embark themselves on a winding road in which they will end up once again as victims of a tragedy that could have been avoided.

Buenos Aires in the year 2002; the economical depression has caught the country. Elsa keeps her head above water through several badly paid jobs and occasional criminal offenses with her friends Walter, Laura and Toni. She's saving money for a ticket to Rome to get out of her life and visit an Italian with whom she had a one night stand several months ago.

Helga is a tarot reader and works on an erotic telephone line. The story of his story gives rise to the appearance of different characters who belong to a world without many moral values. Everyone tries to "save themselves" in their own way between having a lot of hope or a little. A TV news program tells about a suitcase full of dollars from the "laundering" of money that belongs to an influential businessman linked to Power. The businessman instructs Helga to take the suitcase out of the country. The suitcase will never reach its destination and will give Helga the opportunity to start a new life.

The film brings together the winners of the first edition of the Argentine National Film Board's (INCAA) annual public script competition, the grand prize of which is the budget to produce a short film. Eventually screened in national theaters, the omnibus film gave rise and recognition to a new generation of Argentine filmmakers known collectively as the New Argentine Cinema—a wave of contemporary filmmaking that began in the mid-1990s in reaction to decades of political and economic crises in the country.