Buenos Aires, April 1989.

The Stalinist regime in Romania has reached its toughest time, now turned into a police state due to the high level of dissatisfaction and poverty. Simultaneously, Argentina is ending it first democratic government, after years of dictatorship but going through a deep economic crisis, hyperinflation striking. The social atmosphere is turbulent. This context forces Julia, still a teenager, to start working at Mr. Hinch’s home, thus contributing to heal the financial decadence her grandmother and her are suffering from.

Julia is peculiar. Her beauty is special; her face looks like and antique porcelain doll, but her clothes reflects kind of a punk posture shared by many teenagers in Buenos Aires, full of freedom but with no purpose or sense of future, living the moment with euphoria. She was born in Buenos Aires but speaks Romanian as she was raised by his Romanian gran parents, though she tries to hide her origin and does not like to speak the languge.