Caja Negra

Luis Ortega

IndieLisboa 2005 •

Argentina, Fiction, 2002, 81′

Three characters, three generations, hree ways of living filial relationship. Dorotea, a beautiful, young 17-year-old woman, lives with Eugenia, her grandmother who is 100 and has her moments of madness. Every morning Dorotea washes her and combs her hair before going to work in a laundry. But there is also Eduardo, a weak man who has just left prison and now lives at the Salvation Army. Above all he is Dorotea’s father. Three generations, three lives at a crossroads with a desperate desire to be together.