The inclusion of archival footage of Alfonsn and General Galtieri is not only part of Trapero's attention to period detail but also serves to contextualise the film within a wider culture of memory politics.

The familiar beats of the crime saga ... are all present and correct. But the dark political and societal subtext makes for a new, discombobulating sensation.

Trapero negotiates with verve the uneasy juxtaposition between quotidian family life and something rather darker and more sinister.

...these tricks become uninspired as they continue through the film, forgettable if not for its real life basis, and the truly confounding acts of the Puccio family.