The Puzzle

Maria is turning fifty. Her family give her a jigsaw puzzle for her birthday. She likes the present. She sits down and finishes it. Then she notices she is good at this. She enjoys it and she is fast. Something new opens up in days that had gone by in housework for years. She goes back to the shop where they bought it. She wants another puzzle. On the noticeboard she sees a slip of paper. Someone is looking for a partner for a puzzle tournament. Maria hesitates for a while. Then she gathers her courage and answers it. Her family are not pleased about any of it. María Onetto and Arturo Goetz appear in the eighty seven minute film, a French and Argentine co-production Natalia Smirnoff finished in 2010.