수녀원으로 보내진 에밀리아는 그 곳에서 성자들과 고통받는 자들 사이에 나타나는 초자연적인 힘을 목격하기 시작하면서, 수녀원의 깊은 곳에 감춰져 있는 비밀에 다가간다. 남미 장르영화계에서 주목할 만한 작업을 선보여온 타마에 가라테구이의 신작 <영혼의 안식처>는 오컬트와 넌스플로이테이션 장르를 여성감독의 관점에서 대범한 재해석을 시도한다.
A young dancer in a pit of despair that leads her towards self-destruction meets a doctor, who is bearing the infamy of a malpractice case. The beginning of a spiral in which fascination and madness squirm in a nightmarish love story, and where sex explores areas of extreme fetishism.
A junior screenwriter called Juan Garofalo is hired by film director Samuel Goldszer to write his new film: a gangster movie set in Buenos Aires. In each meeting, the filmmakers create a story that takes place in an imaginary Pompeya neighborhood. So the characters are born: Dylan, the brutal hero of the underworld, Timmy, his disturbed, deaf-mute brother, and Lana, the femme fatale who begins the love triangle. But Pompeya hides a secret and is disputed by the Russian and Korean mafia, and Dylan is caught in a sequence of bloody crimes. Dylan fights for survival while Juan, his creator, lives with greed and misery the experience of an imaginary system of evil powers. And when pure fiction and reality are completely corrupted, the unexpected happens.
