As a young man, Tadeusz left behind his sweetheart and his entire family to fight for the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. After the war was lost, the rise of fascism made it unsafe for a Jewish communist to return to Europe, and Tadeusz was forced to immigrate to Buenos Aires, literally going underground to help build the subway tunnels beneath the city. Refusing the doctor’s pills he believes responsible for robbing his lucidity and manhood, Tadeusz’s past begins to meld with the present. Knowing that his next journey will likely be his last, Tadeusz sets about reconnecting with long-lost lovers from his youth, with help from an eccentric circle of caring friends and neighbours. A sharply observed character study depicting a quixotic life that comes full circle in its final, bittersweet chapter.
Carlos
El Tenso no sabe cómo enfrentarse a su mujer, la Tana, para decirle que se quiere separar, ya que la relación se le hace insostenible debido a su terrible carácter. Ella vive constantemente malhumorada: si no protesta por el tiempo, es por el gobierno; si no es por los vecinos, es por los jóvenes, o por los viejos… o por lo que fuere. Carlos, amigo del Tenso, le sugiere invertir el problema… y provocar que la Tana lo abandone a él. ¿Cómo? se pregunta el Tenso, y Carlos le presenta una propuesta: recurrir al Cuervo Flores, un viejo seductor irresistible que seducirá a su mujer hasta el enamoramiento para que, por fin, el Tenso encuentre la solución a sus problemas.
