The Truce

“You will not be able to ignore this story”

Martín Santomé (Héctor Alterio) counts the days until his retirement, a widower and office clerk whose grown children barely speak to him. Sergio Renán sets his routine of ledgers and silent dinners in Buenos Aires, where a new young colleague, Laura Avellaneda (Ana María Picchio), starts to matter to him. He is a man with little time left, and she is the first person in years to ask how he is.