Belmonte, interested in portraying the human being, their folds, their disproportion, is soon to put on a painting exhibition at the Museum of Visual Arts in Montevideo, but he is more occupied with thoughts of the changes underway in his family: his ex-wife is pregnant by another man, and he realises that his daughter, Celeste, will spend less time with him when her little brother is born. Belmonte needs the bearings of being with his daughter, preparing her lunch, taking her to school and, above all, of starting to share with her his interior world without concealing his concerns, even if they are those of an adult.
Federico Veiroj premiered, at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in Cannes, Acné (2008), his first film, winner, among other awards, of the Films in Progress TVE Award at San Sebastian in 2007. He also competed in Horizontes Latinos at San Sebastian 2008. La vida útil (2010) won the Films in Progress Industry Award at San Sebastian in 2009 and screened the following year in Zabaltegi-New Directors. Veiroj also sat on the Horizontes Award jury in 2009. El apóstata (The Apostate, 2015) competed in San Sebastian, where it received the FIPRESCI Prize and a Special Jury Mention.