This is the story of an ordinary man, Francisco Sanctis, who is
faced with the dilema of saving two lives, even though it means risking his own. It is 1977 in Argentina, one year after the
military take over, and Sanctis, a former radical in college is now married with children, and has
long forgotten his activist past, until one day he receives a call from his former classmate, Elena. He agrees to meet her, and she gives him the names of two men who will possibly be kidnapped, and asks him if he could be willing to inform them. Her husband is in the military, and she fears that this could be a trap and she herself is unwilling to risk it. Sanctis, who is no supported of the
dictatorship, doesn''t know what to do. Throughout the
night he is faced with the internal conflict of what to do, and try to pass his responsibility off on others. In the end, he is unable to escape his fate, as it seems that every path leads to the house of the men he is trying to save, where he meets his destiny.
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