The Omission

The snow is soft and deep. You can’t walk on it; you have to wade through. Paula is from Buenos Aires and is in her mid-twenties; she’s come here to Argentina’s cold south to work as a casual labourer during the winter season. She’s been saving her hard-earned wages from her hotel job and working as a tour guide for a small coach company so that she can get a visa and find a better future elsewhere. But she has nowhere near enough money yet. Not enough for her rented room, nor to support her and her three-year-old daughter Malena who she has left in the care of an aunt in a nearby village. The child’s father, Diego, lives in the same place. One dark morning Paula meets a photographer, Manuel, and begins to rethink her plans – as far as she has any. (Berlinale)