Breaking with the established is not easy. Doing it with respect to family plans is even more so. Pedro hates the military career, to which his ancestors belonged. At the age of twenty, the boy is more oriented towards the fields of thought, and opts for the humanistic sciences as his space for training and belonging.
The year 1982 was a year of unfortunate memory for Argentines. In the Malvinas War Many soldiers who defended the integrity of the islands in the homeland were killed. While Pedro's father, Agusto Vidal, is destined in the middle of the war, Pedro stays at home, together with his stepmother, both wrapped up in the melancholic and rarefied atmosphere of Buenos Aires at the time.
Perhaps it was due to that, to that feeling of total unreality caused by the conflict, the point is that Pedro and Fatima, their stepmother, begin a torrid love story. The figure of the father is always there and the delivery of their bodies is a mix between irreverence and complicity. Pedro and Fatima share everything, their fears and their desires, their forbidden desires and their most hidden passion.
Loves surrendered to the clandestine is a literary argument of the first magnitude, the scenario presented by Sergio Olguin, in the middle of a war, with characters whose souls soak a story between tragedy and the hope of life and love, they complete a fascinating play.
Only conflicting loves can transform a story into something more transcendent than the hackneyed arguments of unremarkable passions. But the forbidden character always ends up taking its toll, weighing down the existence of the characters towards a timeless space, a limbo of feelings of guilt and desire.
Infidelity can destroy a heart. Love can transform a lost soul into a brilliant spirit. The contrast is the meeting between all the protagonists of this story. The father devoted to the patriotic cause will return, and discovering that the blood of the fatherland and blood of your blood is being lost can be a fatal trigger.
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