They Returned is a beautifully touching and unnerving story about the unexplained disappearance of three children, two boys and one girl, and their reappearance three days later in a semi-autistic state. Not even the children themselves are able to help anyone understand what happened.
Panceta works in a pipe factory and lives in a poor neighborhood with his mother, selling makeshift guns to local goons. He meets Clara at a party and they decide to elope together, but the local mob boss goes after them.
A film buff, after being fired from his job, embraces his compensation in pursuit of making his debut feature: a short film for which he has neither the actresses, nor the script, nor the slightest idea of where to start.