1999 Argentinean Film Critics Association Awards Best Actress, Best Director, Best New Actress Winner!

1999 Goya Awards Best Spanish Language Foreign Film Winner!

1998 Montreal World Film Festival Best Actress, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury Winner!

1999 Oslo Films from the South Festival Eduardo Mignogna Winner!


Two Argentine sisters, Memé and Aneta, lose their mother in a car crash. Memé, the elder, is also left lame with one badly scarred leg. The orphaned girls go to Uruguay to stay with their aunts. The sisters often bicker, but they are actually very close. Memé flirts but has no luck with boys because of her injury... On their own now, Memé works as a waitress where she gets to know Andy. Returning to Montevideo, they meet Dolores, a friend of their late mother. Memé's affair with a man complicates her relationship with her sister. Then Andy invites the pair to his seaside retreat, a lighthouse...