Character Relationship Map: Heroic Losers

Characters

• Fermín Perlassi (played by Ricardo Darín) — protagonist

  Fermín is the central organizer of the plan to reopen Villa Alsina's agricultural cooperative. He gathers investments from local residents, deposits the money, and is deceived by Alvarado before losin...

• Antonio Fontana (played by Luis Brandoni) — protagonist

  Antonio is Fermín's close friend and a participant in the cooperative project. He contributes money, helps Fermín trace and manipulate the area's power supply, and sets a mud barricade that prevents M...

• Lidia (played by Verónica Llinás) — supporting

  Lidia is Fermín's wife and an early supporter of the cooperative plan. She travels with Fermín to confront Alvarado after the bank deception is revealed, but their car is forced off the road on the re...

• Belaúnde (played by Daniel Aráoz) — supporting

  Belaúnde is a mechanic from Villa Alsina who joins Fermín and the other residents in financing the agricultural cooperative. During the vault operation, he is assigned to destroy the power generator w...

• Carmen Lorgio (played by Rita Cortese) — supporting

  Carmen is the owner of Villa Alsina's shipping company and one of the residents who finances Fermín's cooperative plan. She later joins the vault operation with her son, Hernán. After Hernán escapes w...

• Medina (played by Carlos Belloso) — supporting

  Medina is an unemployed local resident who invests in the cooperative and later joins the attempt to recover the group's money. He works with Belaúnde to destroy the generator, but accidentally causes...

• Alvarado (played by Luciano Cazaux) — minor

  Alvarado is the manager of the bank in Villagrán. He manipulates Fermín into transferring the cooperative's funds into an account under Fermín's control, while secretly knowing that the government wil...

• Florencia (played by Ailín Zaninovich) — minor

  Florencia is Manzi's secretary. She realizes that Rodrigo is pretending to be a gardener and confronts him about it, prompting his confession. Because her father was also scammed by Manzi, Florencia c...

• Fortunato Manzi (played by Andrés Parra) — supporting

  Manzi is a lawyer who benefits from Alvarado's advance knowledge of the financial freeze. He converts a bank loan into dollars and withdraws the deposited bills, making him responsible for the communi...

• Gómez (played by Guillermo Jacubowicz ) — supporting

  Gómez is one of the self-employed fix-it brothers who supports Fermín's plan to reopen the agricultural cooperative. He contributes to the community's investment and later participates in the collecti...

• Hernán (played by Marco Antonio Caponi) — supporting

  Hernán is Carmen's son and a member of the group that breaks into Manzi's vault. He helps retrieve the money and drives one of the two cars returning to Alsina. Frustrated by working under his overbea...

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Fortunato Manzi → Alvarado (Professional Financial Collaborator) — Their coordinated financial actions enable the loss of the cooperative's funds.

  Alvarado personally approves Manzi's loan request, after which Manzi converts the credit to dollars and withdraws the deposited dollar bills.

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Carmen Lorgio → Fortunato Manzi (Conflict Financial Adversary) — Manzi's scheme harms Carmen's community investment.

  Carmen contributes to the cooperative fund, and the group later targets Manzi's vault to recover that money.

• Gómez → Fortunato Manzi (Conflict Opposition) — Gómez participates in the collective challenge to Manzi's financial scheme.

  The Gómez brothers join the crew that decides to crack Manzi's vault and recover the money invested in the cooperative.

• Medina → Fortunato Manzi (Conflict Opposition) — Medina's action materially enables the attack on Manzi's operation.

  Medina helps destroy the generators, causing the blackout that allows the crew to enter Manzi's vault.

• Belaúnde → Fortunato Manzi (Conflict Opposition) — Belaúnde directly opposes Manzi's control of the stolen funds.

  Belaúnde joins the group that breaks into Manzi's protected vault to retrieve the money.

• Belaúnde → Medina (Alliance Teammate) — They share the operation's generator-disruption assignment.

  Belaúnde and Medina are assigned together to destroy the power generator supplying the area.

• Antonio Fontana → Fortunato Manzi (Conflict Enemy) — Fontana actively obstructs Manzi and helps the crew escape.

  Fontana helps execute the vault plan and later creates a mud barricade that traps Manzi's car during the escape.

• Antonio Fontana → Gómez (Alliance Teammate) — Fontana collaborates with Gómez as part of the community crew.

  Fontana and the Gómez brothers reunite with the group to crack the vault and retrieve the money.

• Antonio Fontana → Medina (Alliance Teammate) — Their separate tasks support the same coordinated heist.

  Fontana works on the power-supply strategy while Medina is assigned to destroy the generator during the vault operation.

• Antonio Fontana → Belaúnde (Alliance Teammate) — They are members of the same local recovery crew.

  Both Fontana and Belaúnde participate in the collective plan to recover the cooperative's money from the vault.

• Fermín Perlassi → Alvarado (Conflict Adversary) — Alvarado's deception triggers Fermín's financial ruin and later revenge.

  Alvarado manipulates Fermín into moving the money into his own account, and Fermín later travels to Villagrán to confront him after discovering what h...

• Fermín Perlassi → Fortunato Manzi (Conflict Adversary) — Manzi is the main opposing force in Fermín's campaign for restitution.

  Fermín learns that Manzi converted a bank loan into dollars and withdrew the deposited bills, then attempts to recover the money from Manzi's vault.

• Fermín Perlassi → Hernán (Alliance Teammate) — Hernán assists Fermín during the decisive robbery.

  Hernán joins Fermín during the vault break-in and is assigned to help retrieve the money after the blackout.

• Fermín Perlassi → Gómez (Alliance Teammate) — Gómez represents the practical local support behind Fermín's plan.

  The Gómez brothers contribute to the cooperative fund and later reunite with Fermín to retrieve the money from the vault.

• Fermín Perlassi → Carmen Lorgio (Alliance Co-investor) — Carmen is both an early financial participant and a member of the recovery effort.

  Carmen agrees to the cooperative plan and contributes money with the other residents. She later reunites with Fermín's group for the vault operation.

Story Analysis

A devastated community turns financial betrayal into a dangerous collective recovery effort and rebuilds despite an internal loss.

Plot Progression

1. A Cooperative Dream — Fermín, Lidia, and Fontana propose reopening the failed agricultural cooperative. Residents contribute their savings, and Fermín deposits the collected dollars in Villagrán.
2. The Dollar Trap — Alvarado manipulates Fermín into transferring the money, while Manzi uses an approved loan to withdraw the dollar bills. The currency freeze exposes the scheme, and a roadside crash kills Lidia and in...
3. Planning the Recovery — One year later, Fermín and the residents reunite after learning about Manzi's rural vault. They devise a plan based on repeatedly activating the alarm and cutting the power.
4. Blackout at the Vault — Florencia discovers the deception but refuses to warn Manzi because her father was also scammed. The crew divides its tasks, destroys the generators, and enters the vault during the resulting blackout...
5. A Costly Victory — The crew escapes with the money, but Hernán runs away with nearly two million dollars. The remaining residents still reopen the cooperative, while Fontana later humiliates Manzi at the auto shop.