La extranjera

Maria, a reserved and taciturn woman in her late twenties or early thirties attends to the wardrobe and does cleaning at a disco in Barcelona. From a phone call to Argentina she learns that her grandfather, her last living relative has just died. She flies to Buenos Aires and from there she takes a bus to her grandfather's place outside the town of Indio Muerto, San Luis Province (the movie was actually shot in Beazley, another San Luis town). A clerk explains her the circumstances of her grandfather's inheritance. She decides not to sell immediately and give a try to life in the wilderness. She confronts the small town's suspicion towards strangers (from Europe to boot) and makes the acquaintance of Tulio, the owner of the town's general store and Juan, an educated gentleman out of place in the middle of the dust of San Luis.

This is it. In the rest of the movie we learn from conversations something about Maria and Juan, in particular what drove María to Spain and Juan to San Luis. As the movie ends, María has postponed her return to Barcelona and is engaged with Juan in a somewhat chimeric project on commercialization of arrope, a syrup made from the fruits of the carob tree, which grows wild everywhere in San Luis.

I liked this movie. Cinematography and acting are good. So is direction although there are some abrupt cuts that contrast with the slow pace of the rest of the film.