Sebastián (Ricardo Darín) is a successful lawyer in Buenos Aires and is in the middle of an important case. He has divorced from Delia (Belén Rueda) and they have two children, Luca (Abel Dolz Doval) and Luna (Charo Dolz Doval). Delia wants to move to Spain to live with her father and wants full custody of the children, but Sebastián is reluctant. Sebastián goes to Delia's apartment on the seventh floor of an old building to take Luca and Luna to school and Delia leaves the place. The siblings ask to go down playing on the stairs while Sebastián takes the elevator. When he arrives on the lobby, he realizes that the children have vanished. Sebastián needs to be in court for an important case but he seeks them out with the janitor and his neighbor Rosales (Osvaldo Santoro), who is a police detective. He calls Delia that returns to the building and suspects of everyone until a woman calls him asking for a one hundred thousand-dollar ransom in two hours. How can the desperate Sebastián raise this amount in a short time and who might have kidnapped his children?
"Séptimo" is a tense and engaging thriller with a great idea but flawed conclusion. Sebastián destroys his professional life but let his wife go with one hundred thousand dollars and no other consequence? Delia should have an accomplice but it seems that her revenge on Sebastián was carried out alone. Did she keep her children on the fourth floor alone? How could she move in and leave the building with lookouts from the police and neighbors everywhere? My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Sétimo" ("Seventh")
"Séptimo" is a tense and engaging thriller with a great idea but flawed conclusion. Sebastián destroys his professional life but let his wife go with one hundred thousand dollars and no other consequence? Delia should have an accomplice but it seems that her revenge on Sebastián was carried out alone. Did she keep her children on the fourth floor alone? How could she move in and leave the building with lookouts from the police and neighbors everywhere? My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Sétimo" ("Seventh")