Synopsis
Buenos Aires, 1862. At the age of fifteen, Felicitas Guerrero, eldest daughter of a large bourgeois family, of a luminous irresistible beauty, unleashes an intense passion in the romantic Enrique Ocampo, to which she responds with equal fervor.
The young couple’s fate turns when, under patriarchal rule at a time where most women passed from being their father’s property to their husband’s, Felicita’s father gives her in marriage to the wealthiest man of Argentina, Don Martín de Alzaga, 40 years her senior, ignoring the young girl’s pleas and instinctive resistance to such a marriage.
After a failed attempt to run away together, in which the young couple promise each other everlasting love and to write thus keeping alive their illusory union, Enrique Ocampo, disconsolate, enlists in the Army and leaves for the war with Paraguay, in a self-imposed separation from the young girl, perhaps with the hidden intention of forgetting, or more probably seeking death.
Felicitas is the tragic story of a young couple torn between love and duty, passion and guilt in times of bloody wars, yellow fever, and the unbridled race towards social progress.