Wanda lives with her aunts, she is shy, fragile and her vision of the world borders on depressing. Teresita lives with her parents and represents the exuberant, baroque and popular. Both discover their sexuality through certain games that Teresita proposes, in whose house they live moments of freedom, listen to albums by Billie Holiday and contemplate the paintings of Paul Delvaux.
Director Octavio Getino is exiled in Lima. Through letters, archive footage and the protagonist’s voice, the feel tells of the director’s vast life experience in an in-depth study where the biographical outline is offered as a footnote to recent Argentine history.
