70년대 콜롬비아 메델린의 저명한 의사이자 인권 운동가였던 헥토르 아바드 고메즈의 삶을 아들의 시선으로 그린 영화. 그는 자신의 자녀 뿐 아니라 소외계층의 아이들까지 걱정하며, 사랑과 관용을 베푼다. 예상치 못한 딸의 죽음으로 슬픔과 분노에 이끌린 그는 사회와 정치의 변화를 위해 온 힘을 쏟지만 비극적 죽음을 맞이한다.
Malena is an attractive woman, psychoanalyst of profession and tango dancer by devotion. One night she kills accidentally a man and decides to hide her crime. Days after, she sees in the news the man’s wife and little daughter: he was a policeman. In her plan, Malena meets Carlos, work companion of the dead policeman who is investigating his disappearance. He is of Vasc origin and they call him “the Sabina,” because sometimes he answers using phrases of the songs of the artist. A strange fascination captures Malena with “the Sabina,” the man who has to discover the crime she committed and take her to prison. Since the beginning, the relationship between them is passionate and transgressor, without moral limits.