36 Caballos

It’s winter holidays and fourteen-year-old Ana discovers that the metal plate she has in her arm from an accident she suffered as a child is now receiving a strange message in Morse code.

A working-class family in Buenos Aires runs an underground sports betting operation, which becomes matriarchal after the father's death.

The film is set in the world of the “arbolitos", those characters that, planted along the Florida pedestrian street, offer tourists in Buenos Aires to buy their dollars at the best price. There takes place the life of a young man who is moved by the ambition to raise the money that allows him to improve his life in the shortest possible time, and that he will not hesitate to take the necessary risks to achieve it.

Agustín, a comic book illustrator, doesn’t want to continue drawing. Perhaps he’s a talentless man, or maybe he just doesn’t feel like it. One day he has a dream in which he barges in her ex-girlfriend’s place. That same day, he wants to prove if everything is still there, the way he left it.

The light and the noise stain the dark night.

Lucio is staying at his sister's house. He has no job and spends his days reading, drawing and watching television. When his sister and her boyfriend leave for a short trip Lucio takes over the whole house but strange things begin to happen.

Ana introduces Ezequiel, her new boyfriend, to her parents, in a cabin in the middle of the woods on Christmas Eve. Ezequiel goes into the woods to look for firewood, and when he returns, she notices a change in him that raises questions.