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In the Argentinian countryside, a child's special gift gives her opportunistic guardians the idea of offering consultations with an animal medium in order to earn a living.

Less than a year ago, Greta's son mysteriously disappeared by the sea. As she and her husband Bruno are struggling with grief, her friend Sina travels to the coast to help them sell their summer beach house. While they are packing everything up and getting ready to move out, Bruno claims to have seen something that confirms the locals' rumors: the appearance of a strange shape coming from the sea.

In a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of a small provincial town, a group of children face the start of a strange event alone that has turned adults into 'sleeping entities'. The children of the town wait, confused and resolute, for the moment when everything returns to normal and their parents wake up.

Virginia's sister's visit upends her quiet life. However, that chaos is more akin to a droplet that gradually punctures the present than an explosion. This brings up the aftermath of an accident, unresolved trauma, wounds, but also love.

In Tansen (Nepal) lives a young Tibetan woman: Metok, a rural midwife. She decided to keep her word to her mother and crossing the border towards Tibet and assist women in their labor work.

A man comes in a boat to an island on the river Parana. It goes to a place where there was a house or perhaps a hamlet. Small signs of something old and lost: its native place. The presence of the man allows that materialized the things in the godforsaken place: ranches and tables, animals and canoes. He constructs, for living again, the space for the reunion. Soon, others come to the island: space, light, last beauty, bodies and words, they spill from the ground and the river. It is the reunion, fundamentally, with its dead father, whom it does not see from four years and of the one that does not remember the face. It is the reunion with its dears. With its dead persons and with its birds, with the musician of the river and with its pains.

A family gets together for New year. Three sisters and their families who live by the river. One of them does not attend because she is still in mourning. Her sisters and her nieces try to convince her but she remains firm in her refusal.

In shades of gray, the calm, static shots show young female visitors to a public hospital in Argentina. This is the place where teenage girls have to make a decision about the new life growing inside them. A few of them have, at a very young age indeed, already had children. For others, the idea of a future as a mother is new and terrifying. In many cases, though, having an abortion isn't a decision to be taken for granted. Some of the girls have learned from childhood that getting pregnant is your own fault, and you have to accept the consequences. What they know about abortion comes from horror stories of clandestine practices in backstreet clinics. The hospital gynecologists and other staff, who can be heard but not seen, ask the girls about their well-being, their relationship, their family ties, and how they see the future-with or without a child. In these intimate and non-judgmental conversations, the girls respond with powerful candor in their most vulnerable moments.

Piedras tells the story of Martín, a 20-year-old who has lived with his grandmother since his mother left for the south of the country. He has a friend the same age as his, Sebas, who is in crisis with his girlfriend. Martín and Sebas attend a party on Piedras Street that will change their lives. There Martín will meet Julio, his first love, while Sebas will be attracted to Unno, a sordid young man. The crisis between Sebas and Livia will intensify from this moment on and Martín will dare to enjoy his true love despite the fact that his mother, back in Buenos Aires, tries to sabotage it.

Tango...can also be Finnish. In Argentina we know little about this country and their culture, we usually think of them as completely different society, and yet we dont even know they have their own Tango. In my journeys through that beautiful land I found that link we share, and decided to explore it, to go and unravel the mistery behind the Finnish Tango not only as a musical or dance expression but also to find meaning of this music for this beautiful country in which I found myself interviewing musicians such as MA Numinem and Susana Rinaldi to tango lovers like Elina Lajunen who has the music in her blood, having travelled to Argentina to continue his studies of this dance, and after all this I found that despite of distance between our two contries we are more than kindred spirits.