Set in 1996, a time of excess and frivolity in Argentina.
The 90s saw the birth of hyper social inequality that resulted in insecurity as a structural fact.
‘Un sistema de vuelos espaciales’, portrays the life of Osvaldo, an unemployed scriptwriter, obsessed with outer space. After months of depression, he finally gets a job thanks to his uncle, a sinister and corrupt character linked to the upper echelons of power. The job consists of writing presidential speeches. But after several blunders, Osvaldo faces the challenge of his life: to write an epic presidential speech that will remain in the memory of the Argentinean people forever.
The poster of an old science fiction movie will be the key for Osvaldo to find the necessary inspiration.
Pizza with champagne and spaceships in the stratosphere are intermingled in this story, which combines fiction with real historical events that took place in the Argentine Republic, governed at the time by a president drunk with power.
The untold story of the most delirious presidential speech of the 20th century.