The film stars Ricardo Darín, Dolores Fonzi, Érica Rivas, Elena Anaya, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Alfredo Castro, Gerardo Romano, Leonardo Franco, Paulina García, and Christian Slater.

As a summit of Latin-American nations opens at a ski resort in Chile, all eyes are on Hernán Blanco, the new president of Argentina.

A quiet man from the provinces, it is unknown what impact he will make on the international scene and what he will secure for Argentina in the jockeying for power and profits over energy resources.

Mexico wants an alliance of North, Central, and South America that is open to private enterprise, which means access for US energy firms.

His life is complicated when his daughter attempts suicide, relapses into mutism, and then under hypnotherapy recounts apparently false memories casting him in a bad light.