| Director | Santiago Mitre |
|---|---|
| Budget | $6 million |
| Box office | $5.3 million |
As a summit of Latin-American nations opens at a ski resort in Chile, all eyes are on Hernán Blanco, the new president of Argentina. A quiet man from the provinces, it is unknown what impact he will make on the international scene and what he will secure for Argentina in the jockeying for power and profits over energy resources. Learning that his daughter's estranged husband is in difficulties which could endanger his reputation, he orders her to be brought to the isolated hotel.
The heads of state argue over two main plans for future energy needs. Mexico wants an alliance of North, Central, and South America that is open to private enterprise, which means access for US energy firms. Brazil wants a South American cartel under state control. Blanco initially thinks that Argentina cannot afford to fall out with its larger neighbour and scorns the Mexican plan. Summoned to a secret meeting with a US official, he is offered three billion dollars via a Barbados intermediary if he will back the Mexican plan.
His life is complicated when his daughter attempts suicide, relapses into mutism, and then under hypnotherapy recounts apparently false memories casting him in a bad light. News then comes that her husband, a drug user, has had a stroke which may prove fatal. This removes the threat hanging over Blanco, whose vote secures approval for the Mexican plan and whose government will have the use of the US largesse.