La patota (2015)
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Dolores Fonzi, Oscar Martinez, Esteban Lamothe
A Buenos Aires lawyer returns to her hometown for social work, where a teaching assignment is upended by a violent assault.
The story
Paulina is a lawyer with a thriving career in Buenos Aires, but chooses to return to her hometown to devote herself to social work. Her father, Fernando, made a similar choice years earlier and is now a progressive judge in the conservative local society. Paulina teaches in outlying areas of Misiones as part of a Ministry of Social Development project promoting democratic education and rights. After her second week, a gang intercepts and rapes her.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Paulina is a lawyer with a thriving career in Buenos Aires who chooses to return to her hometown to devote herself to social work. Years earlier, her father, Fernando, did the same, and he is now a progressive judge who stands out in the conservative local society. Paulina begins working on a Ministry of Social Development project in “democratic education and the promotion of rights,” teaching in outlying areas of Misiones marked by poverty and marginalization. After her second week on the job, she is intercepted and raped by a gang. To the astonishment of those around her, Paulina decides to return to work at the school in the neighborhood where she was attacked.
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