A Spanish writer finds an old coffer with photographs of an Argentine man who fought and died in the Spanish Civil War, and of a woman. Her quest for answers brings Vera to the Argentine Patagonia.
The Whore and the Whale is a 2004 Hispano-Argentine drama film directed by Luis Puenzo. The film tells the interwoven stories of a Spanish writer whose life goes through various crises and an Argentine photographer who rescued a prostitute from a brothel in the far south of Patagonia but lost her and then died in the Spanish Civil War.