Soledad Pelayo

How does a starving and helpless vampire survive in an unknown city? The question harasses the protagonist in a Montevideo that she summons, with incomparable grace, the figure of the fearsome being that has become fragile, trapped in a destiny that she has not chosen and from which she cannot escape.

A divorced taxi driver shows up with a black eye at the home of his ex-wife’s new family; he’s been invited to dinner and he desperately wants to reconnect with his young daughter. A professional magician’s car breaks down and he ends up spending an emotionally intense night with a young, widowed toll booth worker. A singer songwriter serving a lengthy prison sentence is released for one night to perform at a local community centre. These three deeply engaging stories about yearning for connection unfold in parallel, one New Year’s Eve in a small town in central Uruguay, balancing the universality of human suffering with a powerful sense of hope.

A woman inherits a farm left by her grandmother in Argentina only to discover that it is a cocaine production farm.

Miguel and Alicia are a young retired couple. One day, Alicia goes to visit her mother-in-law at the nursing home. Hours go by and she does not return. Concerned, Miguel goes out to look for her, but finds her sitting on the sidewalk. What's wrong with her? What happened during this visit? Alicia does not answer. The following days Miguel tries to find out the reason for his wife's attitude, who remains quiet and still in the same position, while he tries to get everything back to normal.

Juana is twelve years old, she smokes and says she is pregnant. In the torpor of an immutable end of summer, she wanders between absence and disagreement with the adult world.

A tale of children's horror for adults. A story that intermingles fantasy and reality. The eyes of a child who perceive what adults are not able to see.

A construction worker takes a part in one of the most profound, obsessive and recognized theater companies of the Uruguayan scene. He will lead them to rebuild a new theater from the ruins of the old Odeón, burned two decades ago.

Pablo and Natalia are two university professors having love affairs with students. Two mirrored stories, similar yet different.

While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.