A fallen and indebted lawyer meets a woman who works in the emergency room of a Buenos Aires hospital.

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In 10 years, 100,000 people have been killed on Argentina's streets: an average of 27 deaths per day. This results in a lucrative market for the insurance companies and vultures who flock to emergency rooms in hopes of getting new clients among the surviving families. Sosa is one of these: in debt and having lost his lawyer's license, he works in Buenos Aires for crooked colleagues who have cops in their pockets and try to get rich off of the victim's families' insurance policies. After meeting an overworked ER doctor during the night shift who pops pills to make it through, Sosa's life changes completely when a staged accident goes completely wrong and his accomplice dies.

Argentinean movies – or at least those that make it to Switzerland – have been extraordinary recently. After El secreto de sus ojos, this shattering social thriller again benefits from a fabulous performance by Ricardo Darin and some impressive direction: longs scenes, especially at the end, reinforce the authenticity and dramaturgy of this film. Exceptional!