In 1977, during the last military dictatorship, Osvaldo Cacciatore’s de facto government proposed an ambitious Urban Highway Plan for the city of Buenos Aires. Out of the eight highways that were planned only two were built; a third one, the AU3, or Central Highway, left an inheritance of expropriations all along its route through several neighborhoods: Villa Urquiza, Saavedra, Villa Ortúzar, Chacarita, Belgrano “R”… That urban scar dotted with empty lots and half-demolished houses soon became the best homes low income families could find. Three decades later, the AU3 has added some new chapters to its series of deferments, neighbor wars, and failed plans of recovery. Hartmann shapes a precise portrait of one of the great urban and social debts of Buenos Aires by going through that strange frontier with open eyes and ears, listening to its inhabitants and the people responsible, as well as critics and specialist on the subject. –Mar del Plata International Film Festival
