Xxy

What could easily have been an exploitative freak show is instead a somber, earnest drama about the issues facing intersexed individuals – those born with male and female genitalia.

For the past few years, Argentine biologist Nestor Kraken (Ricardo Darin) has been studying and protecting the wild turtles that swim off the coastal beaches of Uruguay where he and his wife, Suli (Valeria Bertuccelli), now live in a isolated house. Kraken is devoted to the welfare of these amphibious creatures, which are often injured or killed by the local fishermen's boats and nets, but it soon becomes clear that the real reason he and Suli moved away from everything familiar...