El niño pez

Lala, a teenager from the most exclusive suburban neighborhood in Argentina is in love with the enigmatic and attractive Guayi, a 20-year-old Paraguayan maid employed in her parents’ home. They dream of living together in Paraguay, on the shores of Lake Ypoá. They rob every purse and wallet in the house to fulfill their fantasy, concealing the money in a shoe box. Yet once they have enough money, age, jealousy, and desire suddenly fuse in a fatal recipe threatening to destroy their dreams and shake her family ties at their very foundations. This spurs their great escape via the highway that connects the North of Buenos Aires to Paraguay. While Lala waits to be reunited with her lover in Ypoá, she is confronted with her past. She reflects upon the mystery surrounding her pregnancy and the mythical legend Guayi often recounted about a fish child that guides the drowned to the bottom of the lake. But Guayi never arrives in Ypoá, she is held at a juvenile detention centre on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, under suspicion of murdering Lala’s father.