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Diego is a young man who lives precariously in Mar del Plata. Convinced that he no longer has a future in his country, he tries to obtain the birth certificate of his Catalan grandfather, which will allow him to obtain a European passport. Finally he manages to travel, although without having his papers in order. With his visa expired and without having obtained the game, he discovers that not everything is as he had dreamed.

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Juan plans to introduce his girlfriend Casilda during the weekend at the family home in the mountains. However, before arriving, Juan and his brother Santiago have to flee from a group of assassins who are chasing them by mistake. The killers belong to a criminal organization that includes Miki, who should never have been there, and Gus, a policeman infiltrated in the group who tries to take care of Miki. Meanwhile, Pinco, who should take Miki's place, enjoys the hospitality of the man in charge of the criminal organization, unaware of the problems that are coming their way.

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In an inhospitable rural area in North-East Argentina, machismo, destitution and the repression meted out under the military dictatorship sees the birth of the latest daughter born to Antonio, alcoholic woodcutter who anxiously wanted his first son. After the three daughters are farmed out to families in better financial position, he christens the latest one with the name of José, nicknamed Bumbún, and forces her to take on the identity of a boy. Mercedes, hurt by having lost her other daughters, protects the girl and keeps up the lie, constantly threatened by Antonio. Having been forced to act as a boy since childbirth, Bumbún will struggle between whether to accept her fate or to fight to change it.

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Cristina's life is thrown into turmoil when she is suddenly escorted from her strict Catholic school in Buenos Aires and told that she is really Sofía Lombardi, the daughter of activists who disappeared in the '70s. Questioning everything she once thought true, Cristina embarks on a journey to find her true identity. Meeting others like herself, the young girl soon discovers the real-life horrors of Argentina's relatively recent past and the nightmare that claimed tens of thousands of lives during the country's "dirty war."

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1965, Dominican Republic. At a seaside brothel, the lives of a group of prostitutes take a dramatic turn when freedom fighters stage a revolutionary coup, making them realise they can have a better life and perhaps find love. But everything changes when the US army supresses the revolution and takes the brothel as a military base: the girls will have to face the dilemma of either sleeping with the enemy or protecting their dignity at all costs.

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