Los oscurecimientos

Patagonia, 1978. The armies of Argentina and Chile prepare for a war that will never erupt. In a remote border town, Quito, a teenager fascinated by the conflict, imagines trenches, invisible enemies, and decisive battles with his group of friends. While the adults organize preemptive blackouts and the dictatorship masks the tension beneath the euphoria of the World Cup, the boys create their own theater of operations. Until an unexpected discovery—an abandoned tank—transforms the fantasy of those just beginning to find their place in the world into a disturbing reality. With echoes of The Tartar Steppe and Lord of the Flies, Tomás Sánchez Bellocchio crafts a coming-of-age novel marked by tension, friendship, and betrayal.