Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.
Antonio Banderas
as Carlos Rueda
Emma Thompson
as Cecilia Rueda
Leticia Dolera
as Teresa Rueda
Maria Canals-Barrera
as Esme Palomares
Rubén Blades
as Silvio Ayala
Irene Escolar
as Eurydice
Fernando Tielve
as Orfeo / Enrico
Héctor Bordoni
as Pedro Augustín
Anthony Diaz-Perez
as Policeman 1
Luis Antonio Ramos
as Policeman 2
Carlos Kaniowsky
as Rubén Mendoza
Stella Maris
as Concepta Madrid
