Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

Antonio Banderasas Carlos Rueda
Emma Thompsonas Cecilia Rueda
Leticia Doleraas Teresa Rueda
Maria Canals-Barreraas Esme Palomares
Rubén Bladesas Silvio Ayala
Irene Escolaras Eurydice
Fernando Tielveas Orfeo / Enrico
Héctor Bordonias Pedro Augustín
Luis Antonio Ramosas Policeman 2
Guillermo Navarro