Ricardo Piglia

A film adaptation of the TV series "Los siete locos y los lanzallamas" by Roberto Arlt.

Underground and gay writer Carlos Correas left a number of questions after his suicide. A few manuscripts, a diary, letters, and the traumatic screen version of a short story promise to be the parts of a puzzle that pieces together the experience of an intellectual life painfully argentinian.

In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.

Living with his parents, 17-year-old Juan hangs out with several intellectuals who would like to photograph the human soul. The girlfriend of the group's financier is Ana, and Juan is attracted to her, despite the knowledge that she spent two years at a clinic because she was "crazy." Juan sees Ana when he can and trains as a door-to-door salesman, but when the German photographer on the soul project gives him a viewfinder, it changes his life, putting him on the path to his later success as a Hollywood director.

Two men from completely different backgrounds confront a gang of swindlers. Norberto Lorenzi and Guillermo Parodi are the two "jokers" who meet and relate with the usual initial distrust. Lorenzo is impelled by the necessity to clear the name of Pérez, his best friend. Parodi, on the other hand, has been called to disperse a ring of "narcos"...