Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
Telma (Norma Pons) is concerned when her father Salerno dies of a heart attack in a movie theater while watching a film of two thugs beating another man. She believes that there is something more to it, and seeks the help of Deganis (Patricio Contreras), a forensic psychiatrist. Deganis, having found out the names of the two actors doing the beating onscreen, looks one of them up. His name is Walensky (Lito Cruz), and he is looking for Smith (Martin Adjemian), the other actor.
이렌느는 패션잡지에서 인정받는 아름다운 저널리스트다. 그녀는 자신의 명성 때문인지 모르나 조국 칠레의 현실에는 어둡다. 이렌느의 약혼자 구스타보는 육군장교로 장성까지 넘보는 맹렬 군인이다. 두 사람은 오래 전부터 사랑하는 사이였지만 일자리를 구하러 잡지사를 찾아온 사진작가 프란체스코를 만나는 순간 이렌느는 구스타보에 대한 자신의 사랑이 거짓이었음을 깨닫는다. 이렌느와 프란체스코는 절망적인 상황 아래서도 불같은 사랑을 나누지만 이렌느의 어머니가 걸림돌로 이들의 앞을 가로막는데...
The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.