A playwright whose marriage and career are in a free fall has an explosive run-in with his former neighbor, a right-wing ex-con.

A young woman on the frontier marries a meek farmer who has an annoying habit of going through a rather drastic change every full moon.

In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling…