Free-spirited university student Rafaela’s carefree life is shaken when she falls pregnant. Desperate to get an abortion in a country where doing so could land her in jail and unable to fund one illegally, her situation shakes her world. But thankfully, she doesn’t face it alone by virtue of her best friend and sidekick, Gabriela. In her directorial debut, Hyland skilfully captures the incongruity of the inseparable duo’s lives as they move between their fuzzy pink apartment and the rough and raw backstreets of Santiago.
Chile, 1976. Carmen segue para sua casa de praia para supervisionar a reforma. Seu marido, filhos e netos vão e voltam durante as férias de inverno. Quando o padre da família pede que ela cuide de um jovem que ele abriga em segredo, Carmen pisa em territórios inexplorados, longe da vida tranquila a que está acostumada.
Pablo, a 12-year-old boy, receives a scholarship to attend school in the mysterious and isolated Colonia Dignidad established in Chile by German settlers. It seems to be quite a privilege for a kid like him, and he quickly becomes the favourite of the leader of the colony, Uncle Paul. Over time, Pablo witnesses some kind of strange things which happen there and make him act differently than the other students.
Claudina é uma típica mulher do interior. Após a morte do marido ela cai em uma rotina solitária. Por conta de dificuldades financeiras Claudina tem que se mudar para a casa da filha Alejandra e de seu querido neto Cristóbal mesmo sabendo que o relacionamento entre as duas é um tanto distante. Já morando com a filha Claudina conhece sua vizinha Elsa uma mulher casada e independente que canta em um barzinho escondido chamado “Porvenir” (O Futuro). Claudina inicia uma relação com Elsa e se apaixona. A partir daí ela empreende uma jornada de autoconhecimento para tornar-se livre sob os olhos da filha e dos amigos em uma pequena cidade religiosa e conservadora obcecada com aparições de OVNIs.
María, a girl from Colonia Dignidad, in Chile —a kind of sectarian community, tyrannically mastered by the ruthless Paul Schäfer, a German madman, religious fanatic and child predator, who would end up turning the place into a torture center at the service of the military dictatorship ruled by Augusto Pinochet—, is punished for having lost three pigs, so she decides to run away and take refuge in an abandoned house hidden in the forest.
Three theater students, influenced by a professor and French theorist Antonin Artaud's acting technique, begin to experiment with their own lives, searching for real emotions and situations to bring onto the stage. Their obsession with becoming better actors leads them to their darkest sides, surpassing boundaries that neither they nor their teachers could ever imagine.
