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.

Cast: Antonio Banderas, Emma Thompson, Leticia Dolera, Maria Canals-Barrera, Rubén Blades, Irene Escolar