The main character (Laila Maltz) still lives with her father, and after some hesitation takes up a small-time job in his Styrofoam factory.

After an ellipsis in the narrative, the film sees Laila abandoning her homestead on a ferry heading for Chuy, Uruguay.

The film is a very loose adaptation of the one-act opera Bluebeard's Castle (Hungarian: A kékszakállú herceg vára) by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, with the libretto adapted by Béla Balázs from the folktale "Bluebeard" by 17th-century French writer Charles Perrault.

"[5] Solnicki has also cited as an influence Fritz Lang's noir-adaptation of the folktale Secret Beyond the Door... (1948), which the main character watches in the beginning of the film.

It was in particular praised for its minimalist and elliptical approach to narrative, and comparisons were made to other Argentine directors, such as Lucrecia Martel, Martín Rejtman and Lisandro Alonso.