BELATED

Ernesto and Helena have been married for many years. They live in an isolated estate between tobacco fields and the high mountain jungle in the northwest of Argentina. One day, Helena’s cousin Joaquin arrives. He has just been discharged from rehab, and has been sent by his family and against his will, to spend some time with his cousin and her husband. Helena and Ernesto’s marriage is going through a fragile phase, their problems with conceiving a child having plunged them into obsession and a loss of desire. This new presence is Helena’s opportunity to reinvent herself; for Ernesto it’s an infusion of oxygen. Living at close quarters will destabilize the couple and a love triangle begins to take form among the hunting, the cockfights and life in the fields. Desire can also take on the shape of a deeply felt violence.