Documentary about the writer Juan Carlos Onetti, with a long interview with him in Madrid, five years before his death. Meanwhile in Montevideo, other writers like Idea Vilariño and Mario Benedetti talk about his life and significance. Onetti speaks from his bed, the place where he spent his late years, drinking police novels and reading newspapers.

Onetti, retrato de un escritor

Idea approaches the figure of Idea Vilariño, considered as one of the greatest Spanish-language female poets. Her literary work, especially her poetry, is acclaimed by critics and public alike, a rare case in the Uruguayan culture scene. With her own testimony, pictures, poems, songs and archive footage, this documentary offers an in-depth look at the essence of Idea Vilariño's poetic universe in a frank adherence to her literary and human posture. Her childhood, her ghosts, her desolate vision of a godless world, the stormy burden of suffering from her relationship with Juan Carlos Onetti and the commitment assumed with the issues of her time define the various facets of this woman.