Boda secreta

A man emerges naked from the Buenos Aires subway tunnels in 1989. He suffers from amnesia, but the police and intelligence 'help' him (through rough questioning) to put together his name, and that he was 'disappeared' by the military junta in 1976 for being a union organizer. He has been assumed dead these past 13 years.

Fermin, as he now realizes his name is, goes to a small town to find the woman who was the love of his life, and to whom he was engaged to marry before he disappeared. Over the years she has gone slightly mad, living for Fermin's return, but not able to see that it's him when he returns to her small, quirky somewhat surreal and insular home town, where all outsiders are regarded with suspicion.

The bulk of the film is Fermin's slow attempt to re-awaken his lost love, and to find a home in a town where the small ruling class is particularly suspicious of outsiders.

There are one or two key plot twists that feel slightly out of left field, but not enough to damage the emotional impact of this emotional, beautifully acted and photographed film.