The Heavy Hand of the Law[3] is a 2017 Argentine legal drama film directed by Fernán Mirás from a screenplay he co-wrote with Roberto Gispert.

Produced by Fernando Sokolowicz, the film stars Paola Barrientos as Gloria Soriano, a public defender disillusioned with her work for never having defended an innocent when she gets involved in a legal case regarding a rape in El Escondido, a fictitious town located in the deep interior of Buenos Aires with a pleading wrote by her former teacher and aspiring to a seat in the Argentine Judiciary, Prosecutor Mercedes Rivas (María Onetto).

Years later, in 1983 on a rural town;[4] two public cleaners, "Gringo" Gómez and Manfredo Doméstico are taking litter out of a bridge.

The next day, Néstor Fabián, Manfredo's brother, takes him to the local police station in order to fill a complaint against "Gringo" Gómez for rape of a mentally disable person, during the walk he reveals he plans to sue him in order to take his house, since both Néstor and Manfredo are homeless, living in an intermodal container.

The police officers takes Manfredo to the crime scene and ask him to pose in the position he was supposedly raped and took pictures of him.

Later, Betty, Gómez's wife, finds out about the accusation and Gomez is taken to the police station, where he is made to sign a confession despite the fact that he is illiterate.

When Soriano reads the file, she founds no proof at all of Manfredo's supposedly mental disabilities or evidence of a rape and is angered by the fact that the pleading only has two pages.

When the psychologist arrives, she makes an examination of Manfredo using kinetic family drawing, diagnosing him as mentally impaired, since he did not completed the test, he later cries about the situation.

Soriano returns to her desk and talks with Santi about her disappointment with her work and, motivated by Rivas' dessidy, decides to go to El Escondido for a last try to clean Gómez's name.

In a meeting between Rivas and Ferrera, they discuss the news of the case and how she will dismiss Mudo as a witness because of his criminal record regarding stealing of motor vehicles parts and because he didn't said a word on his declaration.

Santi visits Gringo in the prison unit, who tells him that he's being beaten by the other inmates and that even with solitary confinement, the guards left the door open in order to allow the beatings.

Santi tells her that he won the lottery by betting 5-5-5, based on the amount of witnesses mentioned in the report of El Escondido's police, despite a missing page on it.

Manfredo takes the same bus that left Soriano in El Escondido and travels to the tribunals in Buenos Aires, where says his brother was the responsible of the wounds.

[12] The movie was released in DVD on August 23, 2017 by Transeuropa under license of Primer Plano Film Group with English subtitles and extras.