Blood Will Tell

BLOOD WILL TELL opens with an unfortunate accidental death of a farm owner. This sets up a family history of repeating difficult family relationships underlying the story. The man's son, Elias (Oscar Martinez), who inherited his father's farm, is in jeopardy of losing it to the bank. Elias' wife, Adriana (Paulina Garcia), who runs a successful catering operation out of their large home, refuses to lend him money to bail him out. She announces that this foul-up is just one more of many and she won't pretend to care about him anymore for the sake of their grown children. She launches into epithets and promises to see a divorce lawyer the next day so she can be with the family friend who has been her longtime lover, Lautaro (Luis Gnecco). Since the plot moves back and forth in time, we know none of this when we first learn that Adriana has died in a freak accident involving her electric mixer. The plot moves forward, then backs up to recall the same incidents from different characters' points of view, adding new information and context for understanding events along the way. Elias' son-in-law, Santiago (Diego Velazquez), suspects foul play, conveying his worries to his wife and Elias' daughter, Carla (Dolores Fonzi). Carla, still mourning her mother, is furious at her husband's suspicions, but is given reason to wonder about her father when the mother's boyfriend turns up dead and Elias is found lying by the body, bleeding profusely.