All language subtitles for Historias Extraordinarias 2008 DVDRip Part 1

OK It's like this
A man (we can call him X).

arrives in the middle
of the night

at some town in the boondocks
We know he is there.

to do a boring job run
of-the-mill and bureaucratic.

Meaning, he isn't a journalist
or a detective

or a writer or a scientist.

Nothing particularly exciting
in the least.

We may imagine
he is an inspector..

or a land surveyor
Something like that.

It doesn't really matter
much yet.

All that matters
about his work is this.

It takes him somewhere east town

at seven the following morning
Just a couple of hours later.

So time passes and X
is in the middle of the road.

There are no signs of the place
he was supposed to find.

X thinks "I got it wrong."

There's no one around
to tell him where to go.

He sees a tractor far away.

Before the tractor reaches him
the episode takes place.

CHAPTER I
WHAT HAPPENED BY THE TRACTOR

Initially nothing happens.

It looks like
he tractor driver.

is waiting impatiently
for something.

He stops suddenly
and hides something

beneath a hay bale.

The tractor driver
seems to be uneasy

he heads for the tractor.

and does something
we cannot see

he removes something..

from his pocket
and hides it as well.

It may have been a weapon
Then, he waits for something

truck pulls up.

and two men get out.

They greet as though
they know each other

rather affectionately
but showing little trust.

The fat one nods hello
but is less friendly.

There is something amiss here,
something vaguely disturbing.

The fat man seems to be
a dangerous person.

So this is
what is going to happen.

Somehow the situation
is going to get tense.

Then, the fat one is going
to reach the truck.

take out a shotgun..
and shoot the driver.

There he goes.

The other one is surprised..

and reproaches him. They argue.

The tractor driver looks dead.

The two men leave
They appear to be alarmed.

It seems
like this wasn't planned.

They had not come here for this.

They leave.

X approaches the dead man.

He inspects the surroundings.

he grabs the shotgun..

but then looks
for what is hidden in the hay.

That thing the other two
did not notice.

Things get tricky
at this point.

X grabs the man's briefcase.

without knowing why and leaves.

The men from the truck return
They are worried.

We have no way
of knowing if they saw X.

But they do know
someone else was there.

When the episode ends,
X has killed a man.

He has witnessed a murder
and is wanted by two killers.

He has an envelope they want.

and doesn't know
what's inside it.

He doesn't know the killers
or if they have seen him.

He knows nothing.

Second story.

The trigger. A man
ho arrives in a town..

to take over someone's job.

That man, our mam character
is going to be "Z" for us.

and all we know about him.

is it's his first time
as a boss.

His first time
in a high-ranking position.

The man who hired him tells him.

"Don't worry. It's a quiet job".

No decision making, nothing new

you won't have any problems".

It might be routine

but you get used to it quickly".

You should work there
or a few months.

while you look
for something better".

Just don't get too comfortable.

The guy before you stayed there

for over 20 years. Be careful"

I'm not like that."
Z thinks to himself.

"I'm not like that".

CHAPTER II THE INVISIBLE MAN

The place is unremarkable.

It's a typical
small town office.

It is used
for some agricultural activity.

Farmyard birds or something.

Everyone calls it
"The Federation."

Although he's the new manager.
Z's not sure about what they do.

What kind of problems
they solve.

What each employee does.

And what is he supposed to do.

He is shocked to discover
that he is seen

as an authority figure.

They meet him as though
he's there to give orders.

He thinks, "Take it easy.
It's two months, three max".

Amidst such confusion
he gets some good news.

Every month he gets to make
that they call

a 'monthly regional inspection'.

Three or four days
of driving around..

visiting sites
to sign documents.

The promise of travel calms Z.

You could almost say
it excites him.

A few hours after arriving,
Z asks about Cuevas

his predecessor there
for the last 20 years.

They won�t give him
many details.

He was shy solitary
and methodical.

He was a doomed workaholic,
not particularly interesting.

Single no friends
he dropped dead.

at a gas station
while filling his car.

two months ago.

No one came to claim his body.

It was as though
he hadn't existed.

He didn�t even have a home.

All the time he was there,
he lived in a filing space..

on the floor above
the Federation office.

The same place Z will stay.

until he finds something better.

Some of Cuevas' things remain
Z looks at them with curiosity.

Books on veterinary medicine.

Detective books
in other languages.

Souvenirs and exotic objects.

as if Cuevas had lived
many years abroad.

Finally he sees a big picture
frame in which Cuevas

like a teenage girl

has put together photos
of different times in his life.

When the day ends, Z wonders.

"What kind of character
was this Cuevas guy?"

Okay third and last story.

For this one
imagine a river scene.

A river, which is not going
to be named.

But it's the Salado River.

the one that crosses
the entire province.

Typical river
of the plains region,

broad and calm.

In the middle of that river
there is a man.

Due to a complicated
series of events.

he must travel along the river.

The first of these events
happened a few days before.

In a town 50 kilometers away

at the end of the year meeting..

of the "Sol de Mayo"
Association.

CHAPTER III THE BET

We can base the dredging plan
on this feasibility study.

We'll use a motor that revs ..

between 1400
and 2000 horsepower.

Here is a map
that is already marked up.

Yes, it's from the Town Hall,
but I did some work on it.

The first stage
takes three months,

then the next nine months.

The "Sol de Mayo " Association
has twelve members.

Yanez. Fava, Factorovich,
Bagnasco, Gardehni Raulim.

Zavatarelli, Mazzuchelh.
Laurmo Samoa.

Sorrento and Siri.

Agronomists, a civil engineer,
a couple of veterinarians.

a manager.
and a machinery salesman.

What does the Association do?
Nobody knows.

It's partly
a village social club,

partly a group of friends...

given to technology
and inventions

nee a month they meet.

to eat, drink,
and argue for hours.

They each present projects.

for developing
the city or district.

The project must be both
innovative and feasible.

Man, turn off that slide
Turn it off!

No. I'm sa in that during
he three months of drought...

Here's the thing Yahez
is relatively new in town.

This is his fourth meeting,

and the first time
he has submitted a project.

His proposal
s to channel water.

from the river
to transport goods

on medium sized boats like
he traditional cargo rafts

of the Mississippi
or the Danube.

Bagnasco (arrogant
disparaging, and mocking).

enjoys destroying
and humiliating Yanez.

Three years ago
one of Bagnasco's inventions.

won the first prize
at an Australian fair.

That deed gave him license
to poke at anyone and everyone.

It seems to me
that we need to be.

a little more serious here.

Sure, we are eating
and drinking.

Some people are even smoking.

But you can't even
work with a projector.

How are you going
to dredge a river?

One two, three hours go by.

The situation grows tense
due to alcohol and fatigue.

Bagnasco goes from open mockery
to personal aggression.

Fava the most
like a group leader

tries to moderate
people's moods.

But tonight nothing
can stop Bagnasco.

Hey, stop cut it out.
Let's be serious.

You can't get anything
done with this team.

Not even the pool at my house1.

Not even his pool,
and you're saying 45-80.

Where�d you get 45-809
You have to slow down man.

Factorovich had been silent
all night.

Known for his explosive temper,

he has hated Bagnasco
since childhood.

He has seen
this scene many times.

Bagnasco enjoying himself
for hours with a new victim.

Playing with him
s though he were.

the Emperor of Rome
at the Coliseum.

The Lavalle-Cobo commission..

You don't know
the Lavalle-Cobo commission?

Just go on.

Kid you have
to know the commission...

that has been working
for five years.

Factorovich
tries to remain calm.

He knows this temperament.

Confronting him
would be a mistake.

This has nothing to do with him.

At least, a 4500.
Maybe a 45-16 or a 45-26.

You need a little
over one thousand horsepower

to get something done.

But 1500 horses
in the middle will do.

What?

Factorovich thinks, "Keep cool,
don't get ahead of yourself".

He'll get the best of you
he always does".

Lavalle and Cobo
held a commission.

to correct the river's drainage.

For five years they worked.
Five1.

He's got it wrong.

He's talking
about old machines."

With the new 327
you can do it easily

and he knows it".

He's tricking them as usual."

Two thousand horse power
won't work either.

You need at least 2600.

There's no machine here
that can do that.

A half hour goes by, maybe more

eventually the conversation.

returns to the technical aspect.

At some point Yanez attacks
with his original argument.

Then, to fire things up,
someone proposes a bet.

Maybe it was Bagnasco,
maybe somebody else.

Wait. When I bet,
I bet for real.

What are you going
to bet for real.

You know quarter 2, lot 6?

You know where I sold that land

he bet quickly turns.

into the sole topic
of discussion.

Yanez was enjoying himself
at one point.

Now he wants to disappear.
Bagnasco, emboldened insists

I'm just saying this.

You get this project to work,
I'll put this money on it.

At that precise moment,
Factorovich makes a mistake.

et me see that paper.

Look who we have here.

Yeah, I�m up for it
I'll bet you You got it?

I bet you1 In one month.
Right here. The bet is on.

Calm down

I am calmed! You got it?

The one who ain�t
gonna be calm is this guy1.

Let me go'

I'm sick of him!

Let me go1.

When he wakes up
the next morning.

Factorovich
doesn't remember a thing.

He isn't even sure
of where he is.

He slowly begins to realize.

He's
at his friend Fava's house,

after a drunken night.

He quickly realizes
that he's made an absurd bet.

He doesn't fully understand it

but Fava comes
to calm him down.

Don't worry I have good news!

The La Plata River Company,

with more than
15 years' involvement.

in the development
of Argentina's rivers.

has begun
a project of the future.

The Pampas River Canal1.

International in scale,

it's the future
of fluvial cargo transport.

An 800-kilometer project

from the very heart
of the humid Pam pa.

Today the river
runs towards the sea.

with no regard of the future.

It will be transformed
into a bridge.

for development and progress.

It's all thanks to a project
of untold proportions...

using materials for irrigation,
canal building,

and domestic development

in short. 30 years ago.

a company started
Yanez's same project.

Measurements had been taken,
feasibility studies were made.

The course had been drawn up.
The first phase had concluded.

The company had gone bankrupt
as Fava soon discovered.

One owner had killed himself,

and the rest
had left the country.

The project
ad been left unfinished

and no one had touched it since.

Nothing was left but the rums
created by the land surveyors.

But that was enough to prove
that Yahez was right.

You've got him with this,
Fava told Factorovich

I knew it was somewhere
They had it at the barracks

I asked Novoa
and he sent it to me.

You can kill him with this".

Factorovich thinks
It's not enough

I know him all too well
He ll want hard evidence.

Recent proof This isn't enough".

Connecting
he most fertile lands.

of South America with the world.

The Pampas River Canal.
A straight line to development.

Listen do you have the taffeta?

Take a look!

A week later,
a strange man calls H.

He wants to hire him
for a very strange job.

To travel the river in search
of forgotten monoliths,

check on their condition,
and take photographs.

Monoliths9
H doesn't fully understand.

The upset man
who hired him says

I don't understand either.
Just don't ask me questions,

and don't cause trouble �.

He is on the river in an hour.

His journey has begun.

CHAPTER IV THE FEDERATION

Second story. Z is at work.

The 0-8 corresponds to
the Leghorn and Rhode mix.

The 7-5 was suspended,
and the 12-0-3 replaced it.

In the 24-32 circular
Remember that.

No, but that
was replaced by 12-03.

But remember that one
of these forms is mixed.

You used it for the Leghorn
as well as the Creole.

Z�s first day at the Federation
is overwhelming.

He is drowning
in a sea of names

forms, balance sheets.

certificates, finance checks
and balances.

All the names seem the same.
the processes are indistinct.

ne certification procedure

is indistinguishable
from another.

The rules are incomprehensible,

completely inaccessible.

He hears the explanations.

He repeats and writes down

the differences
between certifications.

But he can't help thinking,

This is a mistake I want out".

Weren't we using this form
for the Creoles as well.

However as days go by
things become easier.

The indecipherable
cosmos of rules.

mysteriously thins out.

All he has to do is sign
what he is told to sign,

check what he is told to check

surrender control
to his subordinates.

The strange science
of the first day

isn't necessary anymore.

The Federation
s like a machine.

repeating
the same motions each day.

He is nothing ut a small piece

of that machine.

No one expects decisions.
ability, or wit from him.

When
the first week of work ends

is clear to him.

that apart from some
signatures and phone calls

he hardly has to do a thing.

As time goes and the days pass,

Z begins to get acquainted
with his co-workers.

They each have.

an almost involuntary
relationship with their work.

Nothing, not the smallest bit
of their lives or interests.

has anything to do
with what they did there.

They just work like students
doing homework -detached.

They don't ask
why they must do it.

They just do it.

Strangely like some
of those students

they all seem to like it there

here's something about it..

that reminds us
of a home or a family.

Mrs Gavilan is methodical.
soft, and overly nice.

She has a hint
of condescension in her voice,

like a nurse or a teacher.

She is the kind of woman
who remembers everyone's names

their birthdays

their boyfriend's
and girlfriend's names,

and the names
of their grandchildren.

She appears to have
no life outside the Federation.

but she doesn't seem
to need one.

No one knows much about her,

except that she sings
in a choir on Thursdays

and has grandkids
living in some other city.

She is a widow.

She has never missed a workday

never arrived late
or been sick.

Then there are
some more minor characters.

A girl that hardly talks
and always gets calls

from an older man.

An accountant who only comes
a couple of times a week.

Z can never remember his name.

A gay couple around Z's age,
Griffa and Carlos Dorado

with whom he rarely speaks
and can't quite make friends.

They are two minor;
ore boring characters.

who don't matter at all.

Palomeque's story is different.

From the beginning Z notices
that Palomeque is overly shy.

He's extremely quiet
and respectful. It saddens him.

He suspects
he's timid and boring,

a man of few words or interests.

For some reason, he feels
the need to cheer him up.

He tries to become friends
with him, cracks jokes.

and makes small talk.

He shows that he is interested
in learning all about him.

After a short while, Z realizes
he's made a huge mistake.

Palomeque becomes
what he has always been

an unstoppable chatter box.

After years of coexistence

his fellow employees
came to tame him.

They made him a silent type
ho fears conversation

the way an alcoholic
fears the bottle.

Like Aladdin. Z frees
that locked up demon.

and must resign himself
to being his slave.

What kind of ice is there?

The interesting thing
about ice...

is that the winds keep making
different kinds of ice.

Palomeque' memory
seems infinite.

He's the kind of guy that loves
asking unnecessary questions

world capitals, scientific names
of plants and animals...

the dates of battles
and historical figures.

He's capable
of unerringly naming

the rivers of Europe,
the Egyptian dynasties

constellations,
dinosaur species.

He lives for lists and often
hears him listing places..

with the same dreaminess...

of someone reciting a poem.

Crassula, Arrhenatherum,
Parrotiopsis.

Slowly Zs routine
begins to come together.

As soon as he discovers
that the new job leaves him

with plenty of free time
Z takes walks around the town

which is still new to him.

He imagines life of lon walks.

in the outskirts of the city

looking for strange
architectural features

or turn-of the-century relics.

But the day of these
grand excursions never comes

must resign himself.

to the area near the Federation.

He spends the weekends
wandering around the plaza

reading the local newspaper..

doing whatever there is
to do at night in the town.

Rarely more
than a movie or a circus.

He has no friends.
His only friend is Palomeque,

He meets him in the plaza
at the comer store,

at the restaurant
at supper time.

Invariably, they get involved
in long conversations.

realizes more than once...

that these
are not chance meetings.

He is Palomeque s
only friend too.

It's a lonely
but quite calm life.

Whenever he talks about
how boring village life is.

Z knows
that he isn't being honest.

He's not really bored.

At this point in the story.

Z isn't worried
any more about Cuevas.

To Z, he is nothing else
than a forgotten,

sad and lonely person.

Nobody has ever noticed him.

Nobody ever speaks of him.

He is not an enigma.
not even a loose end.

If Z has not still removed
Cuevas' things from his room

it's because Cuevas
s so invisible.

that he is not even a nuisance.

Around Z's third week
on the job,

Cuevas' ghost begins to appear

he day

of the first "Monthly Regional
Inspection" finally comes.

It's the day that Z
has been waiting for.

For three days
he must travel the province

in a Federation vehicle.

signing up controls
and certifications.

The same trip that Cuevas made
monthly for almost 15 years.

Disciplined and obsessive,
Cuevas planned this trip.

a year in advance.

The hotels, meals
and car tune-up

have been paid for.

The trip is organized
with clockwork precision.

Z only needs to follow the plan.

The situation
is somewhat creepy.

These are dead man�s plans.

Here�s the entire itinerary.

That man was like a calculator,
so you won�t have any problems.

It's all written out in detail,
all the stops everything.

Let me help you with your bags.

Z begins to feel uneasy.

This trip
he had been waiting for.

as if it were a gust
of freedom and adventure

in the middle of the monotony
he Federation...

began to get tinged
with the shadow of Cuevas.

For the first time.

he feels he is living
someone else's life

he thinks about this man..

that spent 15 years
in that miserable room.

He thinks
of all those books and photos.

For the first time he realizes,
Something is wrong".

But the first day passes
Then the second.

Cuevas' name
appears everywhere.

but without causing
any problems.

He is barely an isolated
obligatory reference.

Perhaps a Such is life" remark
and nothing else.

Cuevas doesn't matter to anyone.

thinks Isn't someone..

so invisible,
something of a mystery?"

But he also thinks.

What a tale I am spinning
I must be bored".

On the third day of his trip
the story changes.

What's your car registration'?

Z arrives at a hotel
after a day on the road.

One of Cuevas' many hotels.

While looking
for the registration,

Z goes
through Cuevas' belongings.

He finds a notebook
A red notebook.

It's a notebook
with Cuevas' notes.

From then on,
nothing will be the same.

Let's see.
What comes next is complex.

One must go slowly
and pay close attention.

Z reads the small notebook.
Then reads it again.

He doesn't understand anything.

A series of names
dates and words.

joined by no logical connection.

Looks like some type of code.

The 25th in the Ramona

7 Napoleons, 6 Mona Lisas.
40 Pharaohs. 1 Samurai.

The sixth, in the Noa Noa.
12 Marco Polos, 12 Cleopatras

3 Mona Lisas.
Carefull No Napoleons.

The list continues
seeming to cover many months.

They quickly
tend to get repeated.

Cleopatras Nefertitis,
Napoleons, Marco Polos,

Mona Lisas Charlemagnes.

Every once in a while
a Samurai appears.

sometimes a Nebuchadnezzar.

What were these names?
The first ones..

seem to match ships.

What about the rest?
There's no way to know.

At one point things
get even more complicated

notices that one sign.

gets repeated
more than the others.

It is strangely familiar.

In the notebook
he finds a scrap of paper.

It has an old phone number
and the same sign.

Z vaguely remembers the sign.

He seems
to have seen it many times

but never paid attention.

Then he has a hunch.

In the notebook
there's also a map.

The old map of Cuevas' route.

Again, there's the sign
with his initials,

on a nowhere country road.

he suddenly finds..

smaller crosses
with other names.

He looks at the notebook
and sees the names.

with others next to them.
Names of people.

What is going on?

What are these inscriptions...?

And what do they have
to do with Cuevas?

Z gets the feeling..

he has stepped
into another world.

A parallel
and supernatural dimension.

He is confused and excited.

At 5 am, he finally
closes the notebook.

He turns off the light.
but he can't sleep.

Kruooer^.

A blond man?

He has not come round
for quiet a while.

This is for Krugger, see?

These are very old.
I don't know if

I think I put them somewhere,
since no one came to get them.

If you give me a moment, sir.

The result is 10 or 12 items
addressed to a Krugger guy.

These are mostly letters
of no importance, circulars,

specials on real estate,
mostly Paraguayan

or from countries
that Z cannot identify.

Of all these letters.

there is only one
that draws Zs attention.

The letter is in English
and from some African country.

As far as Z can tell
it�s from a bank employee.

It's about
some routine movements..

in Krugger's bank account.

Z sees the account balance

1200 000 Sterling pounds.

Back at the Federation.

Z searches the room
or more information...

On this Kruger.

Finally, he finds a box.

behind some tiles
in the bathroom.

In the box there are some
letters some family souvenirs

a few wads
of one hundred dollar bills,

and an assortment of passports.

One of them is Paraguayan.
Christian Alberto Krugger

Christian Alberto Krugger
Krugger is Cuevas.

Back to the first story.

X in the middle of the road
the tractor the truck

the briefcase the murder
the two strangers. X's shot.

the escape to run and hide.

CHAPTER V A PLACE TO HIDE

rom now on.

the story takes place
in a hotel, in this hotel.

This is the night
before the incident.

X arrives at the hotel.

He checks in and takes
a room for five days Room 301.

The next morning
he gets up early.

He has a shower.

Then he asks the concierge
ow to get.

to where he needs to go.

He listens to directions,
he doesn't fully understand

and he leaves.

When he returns to the hotel
has killed a man

and is wanted by two murderers.

He returns almost running,

making sure
he's not being followed.

Once there he gives an excuse.

He says he must work
or a few days..

and must not be disturbed.

He announces he will stay
much longer than planned.

He locks himself away in 301
like it's a bomb shelter

that X doesn t know now.

is that this sight
s all he will see.

for a very long time.

For weeks on end
and even months.

Why does X lock himself up?

At first because he thinks.
I can't go to the police.

My story is too implausible.

I am really
the one that killed him.

The gun has my prints on it.

If train and bus stations
are guarded. I'm lost

I have a reservation
for five days

I can't leave earlier

I have an alibi in here.
I am safe".

But after those five days
why does he stay?

He thinks.
The killers are at large.

Did they see me?
Are they watching for me?

What if this affair
is more complex?

Over time the reason
or locking himself up

becomes less clear.

There will be time
to discuss that later.

For now we have
a character hiding in his room,

determined to stay put.

until he can understand
what happened.

Like a castaway
on a desert island.

X quickly finds ways to survive.

He has breakfast at the bar.
while his room is cleaned.

He sometimes has lunch there
but he mostly eats in his room.

The laundry and cleaning
are taken care of.

No one suspects a thing.

The employees are on rotation.

No one knows
whether he is there.

The morning shift starts work.
he leaves in the afternoon.

The afternoon shift thinks
he goes out at night.

The night shift never sees him.
No one thinks about him.

Nobody worries about him,
and many don't know he exists.

He is simply room 301

he quickly realizes..

there is no better
hiding place than this one.

If he wanted he could remain
here unnoticed.

for the rest of his life.

He returns to the crime scene
over and over in his mind.

He tries to understand
what happened.

he first concludes

that the tractor driver
was waiting...

for something dangerous.

That's why he hid his briefcase.

That's why he kept looking
from side to side all the time.

That's why he was armed.

He was afraid of something
He was waiting for something.

But was he waiting
for the two men in the truck?

Maybe not.

The meeting
didn�t seem planned.

The tractor driver was tense.

Those guys were the last people
he expected to meet.

Yet they did know each other.

Though the tractor driver
was distant,

they were no strangers.

What had they gone there for^
Why were they there?

Did they want
the briefcase he had hidden?

Perhaps.

At least that's the only theory
he has for the time being.

And then? What happened9
Something got out of hand.

They were nervous Something
in the briefcase worried them.

They feared the other guy
was carrying a gun.

In fact he was carrying a gun.

Then the fat guy freaked out,

lost patience
and made a mistake.

Clearly, they hadn't gone there
to kill him.

Killing him ruined their plans.

They didn't expect
he briefcase.

to be there either.

They didn�t even look for it.
They didn't even search around.

There is no doubt
they were clumsy.

They were amateurs.

They did nothing
but make mistakes.

If X hadn't appeared,
if they hadn't heard the shot,

if they hadn't realized
there was someone else there,

they would have disappeared
never to be heard from again.

X soon begins to learn things
through the newspaper and TV.

The tractor driver s name
was Orlando Rey.

He was a widower, no children.

He had lived in the village
or less than four years

and had no criminal record,
ut he had been a jailer..

for a long time, years before.

On the day of the murder
t least two people

broke into Rey's house.

They searched it
from top to bottom.

A few days later,
neighbour of the field

where Rey was killed reports
suspicious red truck...

loitering around the area.

The next day. The truck
is found abandoned across town.

It's proven to have been stolen.

Then someone
sneaks into the house..

of one of Rey's old co-workers.

The guard dogs rip him apart
and he dies immediately.

The dead man is Salvador Armas.

X recognizes him as the fat man
that shot Rey first.

The police announce...

the search to capture
Salvador's brother Carlos.

From Carlos Armas' identikit.

X recognizes the other man
involved in the incident

vaguely, though.
The identikit is terrible.

So the situation is as follows.

an ex jailer Orlando Rey, dead.

Another ex jailer.
Salvador Armas

the one that shot Rey also dead

Carlos Armas Salvador's brother

is at large, a dangerous man
who looks for something X has.

There is only one loose thread
the briefcase.

It is time to open
the briefcase.

"Down to work." X thinks.

CHAPTER VI THE RIVER

It �s around three
in the afternoon.

He's been
in the river for six hours.

Anything
he could have worried about

has disappeared.

Factorovich had given him
all kinds of advice

the current the whirlpools
the wire fences

the tree trunks,
the water level.

Nothing's gone wrong.

He's seen them vanish
one by one.

The river
s as calm and still...

as a path
in the middle of a field

thinks, "If this continues.

it will be
the easiest money ever".

And the most boring.

And the most ridiculous".

Before he left,
someone had said.

Don't expect much
from the river.

It's not what you imagine.

It's not a fast flowing river
like the ones in the south.

Nor an enigmatic and deep one
like those of the north.

Don't expect adventures
It's a river from the plains.

Just a body of warm brown water.

that runs slowly to the sea.

Its a deserted river,
just a line on the map.

Just a puddle for loose cows
to drink from, just that.

Don't expect surprises Maybe
an occasional grove or a mill.

Maybe an old bridge a tram
once passed over Nothing else.

You will feel
like you're sleeping.

or sleepwalking.

You almost stop thinking
like the cattle.

It's like an abandoned path
nobody uses any longer.

No one uses the river either
Why would they? Remember.

Don't expect anything big
There's nothing in the river".

That's the scene that awaits H.

A boring, silent
indifferent scene.

Around 5 pm the first day
H gets to a place known as.

the river bend".

The river becomes narrow, deep.
surrounded by large ravines.

Factorovich had told him

100 meters
before the first bridge

you ll see the first monolith.

It is a cement monolith,
about 15m tall,

10 meters from the shore
You can't miss it".

H doesn't lose his head.

He thinks,
There must be a mistake.

It must be another bridge.
In any case, I can't be far."

Two hours pass.
The river bend ends.

The ravines end
There's no other bridge.

The next day he goes on

hoping to find the place
he was told about.

He fears he has missed it.

Finally he arrives at a place
marked in the notebook.

as "Bagual Corner".

The description
is a perfect match.

There under some trees

is supposed to be
the second monolith.

Again, H finds nothing,
except for some remains.

Remains of human presence.
pieces of destroyed cement.

The monolith.

What's going on?

H begins to miss the moment
just a few hours earlier

when everything seemed easy
and even monotonous.

CHAPTER VII - THE MASSACRE
OF THE SAN MARTIN MILL

The briefcase
contains a dossier.

It's an internal investigation
of the Penitentiary Service.

It was ordered
by a local judge, Saverio.

The report has two parts.

The first part
is a summary of an incident.

that took place three years ago.

Saverio had investigated it.

Judging
by the newspaper clippings.

included in the report,
t was widely publicized.

and caught the public
attention for some time.

The newspapers had dubbed it.

The Massacre
of the San Martin Mill."

Apparently the facts
and details of the case.

had been as follows.

The main character was Chilean.

Victor Hugo Oyarzun,
aka Nestor Oyarzo,

aka Valentin Sepulveda,
aka Monsignor' aka "Pancake",

aka "Spark Maker".

Oyarzun was famous nd respected

throughout
the penitentiary system.

A long-time resident
of the country,

he was serving
a 10-year sentence.

He had robbed he five branches.

of the "Epecuen Cattle Ranch."

The crime
ad been a combination.

of audacity and shrewdness.

This time
the plan was as follows.

Oyarzun had somehow found out
about a big deal to be closed.

between the San Martin Mill
and some gram importers

an Arabian-funded company
based in London.

The contract was.

for a 15 year
exclusive grain supply.

It was worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars.

Escorted
by two Scotland Yard agents

a corporate representative
would carry a suitcase.

filled with 8 kg of pure gold
as a permanent deposit.

But Oyarzun
had some bonus data.

a man
from the insurance company...

must act as a witness
to the transaction.

This man who would travel
to the mill..

to witness the gold delivery
was Chilean.

Oyarzun's plan was.

to leave the jail
for a couple hours.

having some of the guards
as accomplices.

He would intercept the Chilean
and take his place.

He d present himself
at the mill..

and take part
in the transaction.

With or without violence.
he d steal the gold.

Later he would run away..

and return to jail
with the loot.

A perfect hiding place
for the gold and himself.

No one in the world

would look
for the gold in a jail.

But everything goes wrong.

Oyarzun intercepts the Chilean.

but he finds out
that he is traveling

with his wife and her mother.

Oyarzun. Who hadn't planned
to kill anyone,

has to murder three people.

He finally arrives at the mill
and notices something strange.

The operation proceeds normally.

but the people there
are acting a little funny.

A few minutes later,

the whole local police force
arrives at the mill

yarzun reacts quickly...

and kills
the Scotland Yard agents.

He takes the rest hostage.
including the Arab.

They all hide in a storehouse.

Oyarzun's holed up there.
pinned down under gunfire.

or forty long minutes.

When the shoot out ends
yarzun realizes

he has lost sight
of his hostages.

He knows he is lost.

When the police
decide to get in.

Oyarzun shoots a fuel tank.

The flaming storehouse
becomes a death trap.

in a matter of minutes.

As a result.
twenty-three people die,

fifteen of them are cops.

There's also a Saudi noble.

his nephew. He head of security

two British police agents,
he owner of the mill.

his wife and her sister
and Oyarzun himself.

he newspapers call it..

the worst massacre
in the history of the district

and one of the worst
of the province."

The gold, mysteriously,
is never retrieved

7 he second part of the folder
contains prison documents.

How did Oyarzun escape?

Did he have accomplices?
Was the prison staff involved?

The prison management
was dismissed.

All of the jailers were fired.

However, none was prosecuted.

The only person arrested
in the case was an Ardiles guy

also Chilean.

Ardiles was Oyarzun's
relative-in-law

who was caught at the border.

The report maintained
Ardiles' innocence

remanded his freedom..

and recommended
he investigation..

and trial
of the two prison guards

suspected
of having let Oyarzun out

having guaranteed
the logistics of the operation,

and maybe
even of having conspired

in the murder of the Chilean
insurer and his family.

These guards were the brothers
Carlos and Salvador Armas.

The pieces begin
to fall into place for X.

Clearly, the report
had never been disclosed.

Perhaps the person in charge
of doing that had died.

Maybe it had been replaced
with another report.

For sure, Saverio
had never seen this dossier.

The folder had ended up
in the hands of Orlando Rey.

The Armas brothers
knew about the folder.

They knew
it could put them in jail,

but they didn't know who had it.

Rey had kept the folder secret

waiting
for the commotion to subside.

But eventually. Ot having heard

from the Armas brothers
or a long time...

and in need of quick money,
he had decided to sell it.

To whom? Who knows.

To an enemy
of the Armas brothers

or to some friend
of Ardiles, the Chilean...

unfairly imprisoned9
Nobody knows The point is,

he was going to sell it.
for sure.

That's why he had
it with him that day,

and was armed and on guard.

The Armases had somehow
found out about the sale.

They show up confront Rey
and ask for the folder.

Rey denies having it
and everything goes so wrong.

that they end up killing him.

And so they lose
he only way they had.

to find the dossier.

The blunders
get worse and worse.

They continue looking
or the folder.

in places visited by Rey.

Then it is revealed
that one dies in an absurd way.

and the other ends up
s the most wanted fugitive

in the province.
X is caught in the middle.

When X closes the folder

he feels he's just read
a long crime novel.

It's like he's emerged
from a high fever

or awoken from a nightmare.

Something
doesn't yet make sense.

Why is Armas
still looking for the file?

Why does he risk his neck
hen he knows..

that having killed Rey
is a much more serious crime.

than having helped Oyarzun?

What is the dossier good for,

now that he
is wanted for murder?

There is only one
possible answer.

Armas no longer
wants the folder.

He wants the buyer
of the folder.

He doesn�t want the information
but the person.

Why? To get even?
Because he has the gold?

For some other reason?
Who's the buyer? Man or woman?

"This is as far as I go"
thinks X.

He knows he can't do anything.

but wait for the paper
or the radio

to bring some news.

CHAPTER VII
THE MAN IN THE RIVER

Story three.

H has been on the river
for several days.

He still hasn't seen
ny of the monoliths...

he is supposed to find.

Instead it's always the same

a bunch of rubble
signs of recent destruction

Paraguayan tea leaves, tobacco.

He has made a decision.

If he doesn't find a monolith
in the next few hours

he will turn around..

and tell the guy
that hired him.

H wonders if maybe someone else

is doing the same thing as he.

He suddenly realizes
he has no idea.

what it is he is doing.

If someone asked him
why he was traveling

or what the monoliths are,
who is Factorovich

if what he is doing
could bother someone,

if it is right or wrong
he wouldn't know what to say.

At about 6 pm he arrives
at a place called "El gateado".

The river loses its way there.

For two or three kilometers,

it becomes a maze
full of reeds and rushes.

"Well" H thinks, resigned
"The story changes course."