Gustavo Ott

Mummies, Immigrants and Baseball Gustavo Ott

Three Plays: Mummy in the Closet / The Very Thought of You / The 8-Day Hustle. When Evita dies of cancer at the age of 33, the Peron government decides to mummify her corpse, in order to immortalize her. Only eternity has its dark side in Latin America, and the mummy is subjected to a range of shocking abuses that, years later, the Argentine people will also suffer. In The Very Thought of You, elderly immigrants Teresa and Alfonso plan to return home after decades of living in the U. S. Meanwhile, young Maria and Romulo meet for the first time and, despite being as different as can be, start dating. Parallels between the couples interconnect them as though they were one and explore the nature of love, relationships, success and disillusion. And in The 8-Day Hustle a Venezuelan girl is selling an extremely rare baseball card. An American businessman travels to Caracas to close the deal that will make him a millionaire. What should be a simple transaction between a shark of a buyer and a naïve teen turns into a battle that will transform both their lives.