Im Thriller Reptile lässt den zähen Detective Nichols (Benicio Del Toro) ein besonders brutaler Mord einfach nicht los. Auf seiner Suche nach der Wahrheit wird ihm immer deutlicher klar, dass in diesem Fall nichts ist, wie es scheint. Schließlich entpuppen sich selbst in seinem eigenen Leben feste Wahrheiten als Illusionen, die er aufdecken muss.
Juan Méndez Bernal leaves his house on the 9th of april of 1936 to fight in the imminent Spanish Civil War. 83 years later, his body is still one of the Grass Dwellers. The only thing that he leaves from those years on the front is a collection of 28 letters in his own writing.
In the Brazilian thriller Níobe, Rita (Barbara França) and a group of six other luxury call girls are hired by an important businessman to entertain the guests of an important business meeting for one night. The purpose of the meeting - which includes the presence of a president of the republic and its main general - is to bribe an opposition deputy to obtain approval for mineral exploration in indigenous territory. However, the plan does not go as expected and, after all, the future of the country may be in the hands of the seven call girls.
A detective must face his past to solve the crime of the present.
After a police officer is murdered at home, Detective Rocha, who was no longer on active duty, is called in to solve the case. Rocha discovers that the officer's death is just a small point close to the great mystery that surrounds this death.