El Deseo is a small town that has healing hot springs, but also a swamp that everyone prefers to avoid. As in any small town there are passions, secrets and mysteries. Its inhabitants revolve around the Spa and the hotel owned by Dalmiro Bernal and his wife Mercedes. Due to various circumstances, Carmen and Javier arrive at the town. Carmen is a variety artist without much luck in her work who hopes to make money to emigrate. Javier goes to fulfill a job and leave. But The Wish holds them back. They both stay and their lives change forever.
This film follows the exploits of a middle aged man as he wanders through Argentina. It is set in the early '80s following the end of Argentina's long military dictatorship and is based on a 1990 novel by Osvaldo Soriano. Only recently returned from European exile, with no family and friends to welcome him home, "the engineer" travels the lonely southern Pampas of Argentina on the way to a job. He is periodically joined by other strange wanderers such as Nadia, the gun slinging psychic, Lem, a strange travelling millionaire, Barante, the hobo, and Coluccini, a bankrupt circus owner who involves "the engineer" in a rigged card game..
Alicia Liliana Estela Bruzzo was an Argentine actress, born in Buenos Aires to a family of artists. Starting in 1972, she worked in 17 films. She was renowned for her work in television and theater; among her most memorable roles were in Una sombra ya pronto serás (A Shadow, You Shall Soon Be, 1994) and as that of a lonely heart in De mi barrio con amor (From My Neighborhood, with Love, 1995), both opposite Luis Brandoni. She won Martín Fierro Awards in 1990 and 1992, and Estrella de Mar Awards in 2003 and 2005. Bruzzo was diagnosed with lung cancer, and died in Buenos Aires in 2007, at the age of 61.
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