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Story of two women, Eloisa and Agnes, and the people they encounter who change their lives forever. Eloisa is 65, widowed, and has left the city to live in the small town of Torres where she lives with three dogs and four cats and spends all of her days preparing meals for 200 underprivileged children. Agnes is 36 and works as a receptionist at a hair restoration center. She can't connect with her family and is alone. Just when she thinks her life will change for the better after meeting a handsome architect, her neighbor attacks her the night before her date.

A day in the life of a middle-aged couple living in Buenos Aires. Molly and Estaban have been married for twenty years and they are still grasping at the meaning of their relationship.

With a radical take on narrative, disturbing yet beautiful cinematography, and a highly sophisticated use of on- and offscreen sound, Martel turns her tale of a decaying bourgeois family, whiling away the hours of one sweaty, sticky summer, into a cinematic marvel. This visceral take on class, nature, sexuality, and the ways political turmoil and social stagnation can manifest in human relationships is a drama of amazing tactility and one of the great contemporary film debuts.