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August 2001, Alsina (east to Argentina, close to Atlantic Ocean). In a little town with absence of population and resources, former soccer player Fermín Pelassi and his wife Lidia decide to create a cooperative buying an abandoned silo to restore it and hire people to work, hoping to bring back the business Alsina. Talking between others with friends as aged Antonio Fontana (a self-declared anarchist and Bakunins fan), train station chief Rolo Belaúnde, redneck expert in explosives Atanasio Medina, businesswoman Carmen Largio and the naive not-too-much-smart but lovely José and Eladio Gómez brothers, all they reunite an amount of 158,000 $. Not having a bank in Alsina, Fermín and Lidia travel the neighbor town of Villagrán to leave the money in a safe box trusting in Alvarado, bank manager, to keep it while they try to negotiate with silos owner to reduce the original price of 300,000 $. Therefore, Alvarado convinces Fermín to change the money from the safe box to his own bank account to accelerate silos purchase. But the next day, December 19, 2001, Argentinas government declares the infamous Corralito (a national bank freeze, preventing that any citizen can to extract from any bank more of 250 $ per day). With all them money trapped in the bank, Fermín and Lidia travel Villagrán to face without success Alvarado by the cheat. However, things worsen when during the return trip they have a car crash, where Lidia dies and Fermín is severally injured. One year later, a depressive and still mourning Fermín cared by his son Rodrigo, who left the Buenos Aires University after the car crash, is visited by Fontana and Belaúnde to report him about news: going to Fontanas workshop, a young bank employee reveals Fermín that the same day that Alvarado convinced him to change the money, it was moved to the bank account of a corrupt lawyer and Alvavaros partner-in-crime, Fortunato Manzi, who later kept it in an underground bunker located in the lands of a cow ranch. Looking for recover the money Rodrigo fakes to be a gardener in Manzis office where he meets Florencia, Manzis secretary, feeling attracted to her at the same time he learns about Alvarados and his wife deaths in a fire in their house. While Fermín and the rest find the bunker and they try to open it, they discover in bad ways the so much strong bunkers security system, forced to runaway quickly. Tracing trace a plan to dismantle the security causing several consecutive fails on it, two unexpected troubles appear: Florencia uncovers Rodrigo, and an armed Manzi is on the verge of a collapse nervous, determined to kill anyone by the money. Fearing to lose Rodrigo as he lost Lidia, Fermín quits off the plan, but Rodrigo makes him continue despite the danger. Will can to get the money before Florencia betrays Rodrigo and Manzi catch all them?
Argentina, August 2001. Against the backdrop of Argentinas Great Depression, and with his glory days far behind him, Fermín, a retired football player, and his supportive wife, Lidia, have a noble vision: pull the community of their struggling hometown of Alsina out of decline. With this in mind, the couple talks its down-on-their-luck friends into investing their meagre savings into an agricultural cooperative, only to see them fall prey to an unscrupulous banker and an equally rapacious lawyer bent on getting his hands on their precious U.S. dollars. And, as if that werent enough, as millions of small account holders suffer, tragedy strikes. But once, Fermín and his companions were lawful, hard-working citizens dreaming of a better future. Now, they are a band of defeated, downtrodden victims who just want their money back. Do Fermíns heroic losers have what it takes to start a new career with a bang?
Ricardo Darín
Fermín Perlassi
Luis Brandoni
Antonio Fontana
Verónica Llinás
Lidia Perlassi
Daniel Aráoz
Rolo Belaúnde
Andrés Parra
Fortunato Manzi
Germán Rodríguez
Deluca
Alejandro Gigena
Eladio Gómez
Guillermo Jacubowicz
José Gómez
Ramiro Vayo
Turco Safa
Martha Piatigorsky
Señora de Llanos
Carlos Jorge Piñeiro
Flaco Cacheuta
Carlos Belloso
Atanasio Medina
Rita Cortese
Carmen Largio
Marco Antonio Caponi
Hernán
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Alvarado
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Rodrigo Perlassi
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