Carlos Ameglios first feature film, LA CÁSCARA (THE RIND), marks a co-production between Uruguay, Spain and Argentina. He does not hesitate to define it as comedy-drama that evoques the classic cinema fantastique of the 1940s.
The story begins with the death of an advertising creative, while working while working on an idea for the launch of an anti-cold pill. From then on Pedro, one of his old colleagues, begins an intricate search in order to discover the departeds idea, taking over his place and making use of his original notes and thoughts.