Set in present-day Buenos Aires, Corrientes is a romantic drama with comedic undertones that unfolds over the course of a single Friday night along one of the city’s most iconic avenues.
Lorenzo is half drunk and lonely. Every Friday night for the past several months, he has walked Avenida Corrientes searching for something he cannot name: a feeling, a spark, anything to cut through the numbness that has taken over his life. His routine is interrupted when he crosses paths with Ana, who has just been robbed by two teenagers. He offers to help but, blinded by the awful day she has had, she ignores him completely and walks away.
By work of fate, or simply the direction of the street, they meet again a few blocks later. Seeing her so distressed, Lorenzo offers his company, and Ana, who doesn't want to go home yet, accepts.
What follows is a night neither of them expected. The city becomes their guide: a parked car turns into a stage for Lorenzo to sing a classic song, a theater appears out of nowhere and a cocky actor insists on giving them their autograph, a homeless man speaks to them about love and loss in front of the iconic Abasto. Block by block, each encounter pushes their conversation further, past small talk and defenses, past the versions of themselves they show to the world.
Sitting in front of a boarded-up luthier shop that once meant everything to Lorenzo, they finally speak honestly: Ana about her fear of being out in the world and not knowing what she truly wants; Lorenzo about being stuck and the things he loved and abandoned. Suddenly, all the lights in Corrientes go out, leaving them momentarily in the dark. Vulnerable but feeling understood, Lorenzo and Ana share their first kiss.
As dawn breaks and the avenue begins to fill with pedestrians, Ana and Lorenzo reach 9 de Julio. They share a final moment together as the Obelisco turns its lights off. They part, unsure if they will meet again, but certain that something, at last, finally feels real.
