Jacobo Koeller, the owner of a failing sock factory, lives a quiet, bachelor life until the day his brother shows up, a man he hasn’t seen in years. In order not to feel inferior in front of his more successful brother, Jacobo comes up with the idea of asking his faithful employee Marta to pretend to be his wife. The aging woman fulfils this new task as inventively as everything else she has done for her impractical employer. Almost strangers to each other, the three characters accept the rules of the game: they will play members of a loving family while the energetic Hermann is visiting. Not surprisingly, this leads to a number of absurd situations. Whisky is the second feature from the Uruguayan duo Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. The film takes place in Montevideo but it could have played out anywhere as a universal story of loneliness exacerbated by the characters’ age.