Historias Breves 2

The military coup of '76 means that the birthday of a little girl named Paula does not pass normally.

Historias Breves II: Aluap

Sofía accomplished many things in her life. She started a beautiful family and gave love to many people. Sofía has also experienced some very sad things: the death of her father in the San Juan earthquake of 1944, the disappearance of her son during the dictatorship, forced exile at the age of 67… Despite all this, she is not only alive, lucid, and active, but also has a surprising sense of humor and optimism.

Sofía, cumple 100 años

Elisa, a thirty-eight-year old woman, leaves for a week with her husband and young daughter on a vacation to a house in the country. Everything is going for her: she has a successful professional career, loves her family, has enough money for a comfortable life, and has plans for the future. After arriving to the country, a strange feeling takes hold of her. She starts feeling the presence of something that moves the treetops at night, makes the dogs howl, and wanders like the breath of a ghost across the infinite countryside. A stinging feeling that kills all her certainties. In the middle of the night Elisa wakes up. The moonlight shines on her face.

In the Open

Grace is a Lebanese in Buenos Aires. One day her great-aunt confesses that Mohammed, her great-grandfather, did not die in Argentina but returned to Lebanon, abandoning the family. He hands him letters in Arabic that no one has ever read.