Nadie nos mira

Nico, an Argentinian actor who attained some recognition working in soap operas is trying to find more challenging acting jobs in New York. He survives by doing odd jobs such as babysitting for Andrea, his well-to-do friend from back home. He has an expired visa and shares lodgings with Claire (both are gay). Nico is chasing after some dubious jobs, among them a movie eternally in the preparation stage. Kara, a successful producer lays out clinically his possibilities, or lack thereof. He does not fit in any of the fashionable clichés; he is too fair haired and light skinned to play a Latino and has an accent too thick to "play white." Nico is haunted by a love/hate relationship with his ex-partner Martín, a TV producer who tries to entice Nico to return to Buenos Aires to renew his relation and retake his mediocre career (not even that is certain, though).

This is it. Nothing much happens on screen. The script is clever and deals subtly with problems exiles face, such as the fear of returning home a failure. Being a low income dweller of Manhattan a long time ago I enjoyed such details as Nico picking up used furniture left on the sidewalk for collection. All in all we see real people doing what real people do: talking to each other in sometimes rambling and unfocused ways, acting to unclear motivations, trying to discover what fits them and what of this is attainable. The title, Nadie nos mira, Nobody's Watching probably refers to Nico's frustration at not being noticed in spite of multiple tries.