Is one of the best Argentinian films i have seen in my life, almost a master piece. You should all see it.Briefly, the story is:After her gas is cut off, Paula - an aspiring actress - finds her day going from bad to worse. Unable to borrow money from her friends, or from her estranged father, she is then propositioned by the director of her play and loses her job. Needing 300 pesos to pay off her landlord, she turns to an old school friend, now a prostitute, in the hope of getting some cash. The perils she faces through this awful day continue through the night. Will she be able to cope with her new professions? What will tomorrow bring?Setting it over the course of a single day and night, he manages to weave a series of perilous situations for his central character to overcome. But this is no simple tale of black-and-white morality, or an uplifting fable of hard work overcoming all.

The performance by Antonella Costa is just superb, however there are some problems with the plot and how the story develops. The movie catches with singular dramatic intensity the consequences of economic crisis in Argentina and its effects on many young female. Of course, the effects of such crises are not exclusive of Argentina. They repeat with terrifying regularity all over Latin America.It is a movie with brains made on a low-low budget, and that is why it is killed by the whole scene on the elevator. I will not elaborate on the details of such scene, but any person that has ever used an elevator in Argentina or in any other country of the world knows that elevators do not do that. There were many ways to achieve the dramatic purposes of such scene without doing what Chomski did. I will also add to my criticism the fact that having that beautiful city that is Buenos Aires as a background, the movie uses little or nothing of it. That is a shame because the city offers many opportunities to develop good cinematography without spending too much.Overall good on the performance of Antonella, great on the underlying criticism of the economic situation in Argentina, but a flaw that kind of kill the movie as an artistic exercise.

The acting seemed wooden to me. She was the same person before and after she turns to the world's oldest profession. OK, jobs are hard to come by, I get that - but then she can't even keep hers. Her uncle runs a restaurant, she could work there too. I'm not saying it would be biscuit city, but there appear to be other options. So, in one night she becomes a hardened whore - the character never really changed. She jumps right in to a lifestyle where nobody is a real person and everybody wants something from somebody. And she was no different! She didn't need any training in becoming a hooker, she seems to have been born saying "where's my money?"Pacing was slow and there were one too many "riding behind her on the motor scooter" shots.Not buying it - a waste of time.

It was an interesting picture, sure it shows a struggling actress trying to make ends meet. She turns to prostitution as a last resort to pay 4 months of back rent at 300 pesos each. She turns tricks for 50 pesos, then 100 pesos, then 200 and finally 300 pesos. All she wants is the money and does not care how she gets it.Where the movie falls apart for me is that she is with 1 john here and then another john and then she meets her boyfriend, gets robbed, and then goes back out and performs sex on the same fellow as a few hours before, all in the same night. She then is raped and tortured and all of this in less than 12 hours.It just seems far fetched and would have been better to put some real life in the character. Too often she plays a robot and acts as if men really get her a drink and then she says, "It's 200 and I am working" and these dopes fall for her. Shameless!