Nightmare's Passengers

Based on a true story that filled Argentine headlines in 1981, NIGHTMARE'S PASSENGERS paints a convincing portrait of the disintegration of a family from within. The film opens on an empty car parked on a side street, blood dripping out of the trunk. The bodies of Luppi and his wife, Bruzzo, are inside. Their two sons are arrested, and the youngest, Lenn, tells the story in flashback under interrogation. It seems their father, a Jewish executive in an arms firm with extensive ties to the military junta, has a closet streak of homosexuality. His wife is an alcoholic nymphomaniac who is constantly trying to seduce her own son. Their children, two sons and a daughter,...