At 43, Hélène realises that she has devoted too much of
her life to her career and that it is time she started living for
herself. Desperate to become a mother, she travels to Argentina,
looking for a child she can adopt. This is how she comes to
discover the Argentine Northwest, a region endowed with an astonishing
raw beauty but where social injustice is endemic. As she explores
the area and makes unlikely friendships, Hélène begins to
find the answers to some of the questions that have been troubling her
for so long...
Science-fiction came into its own in B-movies of the 1950s, but it remains a respected and popular genre, bursting into the mainstream in the late 1970s.
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.