Through the creation of a family portrait, a mentally imbalanced young artist connects with her dead mother to exact revenge on her ghoulish father and abusive grandfather.
Max is a shy boy who recently accepted his homoexuality and wants to tell his mother that is gay before she dies of cancer. His sister tries to stop him for fear that it will affect her mother too much.
Mothers whose lives are crossed by the same fact in common. His children were sent to the Malvinas war and did not return. With a gender and federal perspective, Matria addresses the intimate experience and the treatment of absence.