The Wick
(La Mecha)

Don Galván gets up early in the morning, gets ready to start the day, does a little exercise, eats breakfast, but when he goes to turn on his old kerosene heater, the wick doesn’t light. He has to change it. The problem is that it is a model that can no longer be found. Will he find the spare part? What follows is an unusual, almost clandestine, journey around Ituzaingó in which the old protagonist tenaciously searches for the replacement part for his heater. Based on an ordinary anecdote, the film raises existential concerns about the fate of trades without a future, the useful life of objects and the mystery of occasional connections. RK