In the waning days of Juan Domingo Perón’s presidency, Argentina trembles amid political chaos, and a quiet vigil at a family's home becomes the stage for a dangerous game. Cosme, a young member of the Peronist Youth, sits with his relatives as his father has just died of a heart attack, and grief quietly folds into a tense atmosphere of secrecy. The arrival of a gang of political operatives shifts the mood from mourning to manipulation. The group, led by Aldo, Oscar Alegre slowly begins to press Cosme, stoking a rising sense of political fervor that blurs moral lines and personal loyalties.
The intruders reveal a shocking objective: Perón has died, a fact kept from the public, and they want Cosme to participate in a daring theft. They propose swapping Perón’s body, which they have stolen, with Cosme’s father’s corpse. Their goal is cunning and macabre—to keep the death a secret from the military authorities, and to claim Perón’s body as a shrine for themselves. The plan hinges on secrecy, nerve, and a willingness to blur the lines between reverence and opportunism. The narrative follows the way this hazardous scheme gnaws at the family’s trust and the community’s sense of right and wrong.
Yet the scheme begins to fracture when Cosme finds the courage to refuse, choosing a moral boundary over political manipulation. As resistance grows, the gang’s plan crumbles, and law enforcement closes in, leading to a climactic confrontation. In the ensuing gunfight, Aldo and the others meet their end, and the dangerous plot collapses into the quiet aftermath of a family’s survival and a community’s reckoning with power and desire.
The story resonates with themes found in Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Santa Evita, which also wrestles with how the body of a public figure can become a focal point for political symbolism and national longing. The film blends historical texture with intimate decision-making, showing how personal relationships are tested when the country’s fevered myths collide with the limits of individual conscience.
The ensemble cast brings the drama to life. Cristina Banegas and Belén Blanco anchor the emotional core, supported by Esteban Lamothe and Luis Ziembrowski in pivotal moments, while Oscar Alegre delivers the chilling presence of Aldo. The lineup also includes Julián Krakov, Raquel Albéniz, Beatriz Thibaudin, and Eduardo Horacio in roles that enrich the texture of the story and its historical atmosphere.
