A Place in the World

Mario and Ana, in voluntary exile from Buenos Aires, carve out an existence in a remote Argentine valley with their twelve-year-old son, Ernesto. He runs a school and a wool cooperative; she practices medicine at a clinic alongside Nelda, a progressive nun. Their idealistic family microcosm is disrupted by the arrival of Hans, a weary Spanish geological engineer. Commissioned by the local landowner, he surveys the terrain for a potential hydroelectric dam—a project that threatens to displace the peasant farmers, driving them from their ancestral land into the cities.