A young man meets an old countryman who convinces him to dig a well in the middle of the field. When the old man refuses to reveal the purpose of the task, the young man warns that it could be something more than a simple gauchada.
Florencia lies to her daughter, mother, and sister to have a sexual encounter with Agustín, her ex-husband. Her mother’s emergency surgery will expose her lies and Agustín’s disaffection. However, this will allow her to put an end to their marriage for good.
In the late 1970s, at the height of the Argentine civil-military dictatorship, a group of more than 60 Argentines who had been exiled in various European countries left their homes once again to move with their families to Mozambique, a recently independent former Portuguese colony mired in a terrible civil war. Their goal: to work as volunteers in the construction of the Socialist State promoted by the African leader Samora Machel against the interference of the then racist South African government.
