A portrait of several young women at the threshold of adulthood, feeling their way through various crises born of the insular comforts of upper-middle-class life.  The status quo of boredom and leisure is challenged by the vicissitudes of Argentina’s economic malaise, forcing the offspring of this vanishing upper class to extricate themselves from the grips of familial privilege.  From Argentinian director Gastón Solnicki (Papirosen) is partly inspired by Béla Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle (vivid passages are heard throughout the film).

Chicago: Opens August 25 at Facets Cinematheque.