Ostende

Laura Citarella : 2011

In a radio contest, a young woman wins a four-day vacation at a hotel in Ostende, a sea resort in the Buenos Aires province. It's the low season, and she gets to the place alone. Her boyfriend will join her a few days later. On the beach there's plenty of sun but also too much wind, and a not very sophisticated bar with a waiter who talks too much. In this place with no obligations or big attractions, apart from a windy beach nearby and the not-so-tempting ocean, the girl starts to pay attention to some strange attitudes by an old man who's accompanied by two young women. When her boyfriend arrives, he interrupts like a representative of the outside world, that same world she has been slowly distancing herself from in just a couple of days, to enter with pleasure and curiosity into this intriguing micro-cosmos that might be filled with stories she doesn't know.