In 1999, Espósito tries to make sense out of the case and visits Ricardo, who moved in 1975 to an isolated cottage in a rural area of the Buenos Aires Province. Espósito returns to Buenos Aires in 1985 to find Gómez missing and Menéndez married with two children. Fearing for his life, Espósito goes into hiding for 10 years in Jujuy Province with Menéndez's cousins. Espósito soon concludes that Gómez/Romano sent assassins after him, but Sandóval impersonated him to protect his friend. They find the door pried open, his pictures flipped over and Sandóval shot dead in his room. Weeks later, Sandóval gets in a bar fight, causing Espósito to take him to his flat and fetch his wife. Espósito informs Morales that his wife's killer will never go to prison. Espósito and Menéndez try to reverse it but are stopped by Romano's intervention. Gómez is tried and sentenced, but Romano bails him out one month later in order to get revenge on Espósito and hires him as a hitman for the right-wing faction of the Peronist Party. Espósito and Menéndez then grill him illegally, with Menéndez making Gómez confess after hurting his male pride. A chase ensues and Gómez is caught by the stadium's security guards.
While keeping an eye on the game's attendees in Huracán's stadium, Espósito and Sandóval locate Gómez among the crowd, but a sudden goal causes a hubbub and allows Gómez to flee. After identifying him as a Racing fan, Espósito and Sandóval attend a game between Racing and Huracán, in hopes of finding Gómez. Meanwhile, while getting drunk in a bar, Sandóval makes a discovery: an acquaintance of his identifies several names on the letters – seemingly without any connection – as footballers of Racing Football Club. Espósito convinces Menéndez to reopen the investigation. In 1975, Espósito finds Ricardo in a train station in Retiro and discovers that he was trying to find Gómez in multiple stations. Gómez is still on the loose due to a careless phone call from Ricardo to Gómez's mother, in a desperate quest for his wife's killer. Their "visit" only causes them trouble with their higher-ups, and they are unable to find any evidence in the letters. Sandóval steals them and Espósito finds out after returning to Buenos Aires. During the break-in, they find some letters from Gómez to his mother. Espósito and Sandóval sneak into Gómez's mother's house in Chivilcoy. Romano, Espósito's rival, accuses two immigrant workers of the murder, which angers Espósito upon discovering that both of them were tortured to obtain a confession.Įspósito finds a lead while looking at old photos of Liliana, which Ricardo gave him: many of them featured a man, identified as Isidoro Gómez, staring at her suspiciously. Espósito is helped by his alcoholic partner Pablo Sandóval and the new department chief Irene Menéndez-Hastings. Espósito promises her husband, Ricardo, he will find the killer and give him a life sentence. In June 1974, judiciary agent Benjamin Espósito investigates the rape and murder of Liliana Colotto de Morales. 91 by international critics for the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century. In 2016, The Secret in Their Eyes was ranked No. At the time of its release, it became the second highest-grossing film in Argentine history, surpassed only by 1975's Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf. Three weeks before, it had received the Spanish equivalent with the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film. The film received awards in both Hollywood and Spain, notably the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, making Argentina, with 1985's The Official Story, the first country in Latin America to win it twice. Using a nonlinear narrative, the film depicts a judiciary employee and his boss, a law clerk, in 1974, played by Ricardo Darín and Soledad Villamil, as they investigate a rape and murder case, while also following the characters 25 years later reminiscing over the case and unearthing the buried romance between them. The film is a joint production of Argentine and Spanish companies. The Secret in Their Eyes (Spanish: El secreto de sus ojos) is a 2009 Argentinian crime drama film directed, co-written, produced and edited by Juan José Campanella, based on the novel La pregunta de sus ojos ( The Question in Their Eyes) by Eduardo Sacheri, who also co-wrote the screenplay.
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