Jaime
Ten years after her daughter was the victim of a hate crime, brutally beaten in the streets of Santiago for being a lesbian, Nancy is asked to participate in an unsolved mysteries TV show that will recreate the incident. Nancy, a hairdresser who has worked very hard to move on with her life, will have to decide if finding justice for her deceased daughter is worth exposing herself and her family on television.
Narrator (voice)
Through illustrations and sounds, Una vez la noche experiments with the obsessive narration of four diverse characters –all of which are lost in the settings of their memory– to exhibit crucial events that marked their lives forever. Through a particular mise-en-scène, the film provides apparently ordinary people with a brilliant singularity, introducing us to a new perception of reality.
Mauricio
18-year-old Rodrigo is arrested by the police in a televised raid on the club where he works as a drag queen.
Colonel Pérez
No Chile, em 1973, durante os últimos dias da presidência de Salvador Allende, um funcionário do necrotério se apaixona por uma dançarina burlesca, que desaparece misteriosamente. Loucamente apaixonado e pertubado pela perda de sua potencial amante, Mario começa a sua busca frenética por Nancy.
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
CNI Agent 1
Santiago do Chile, 1978. Em meio ao complicado contexto social da ditadura militar de Augusto Pinochet, um homem de meia-idade, Raúl Peralta (Alfredo Castro), está obcecado com a idéia de se tornar Tony Manero, o famoso personagem interpretado por John Travolta no clássico filme da era disco "Os Embalos de Sábado à Noite". A fantasia de encarnar seu grande ídolo, e assim ser reconhecido como uma estrela no mundo do entretenimento, chega a tal nível que acaba levando Raúl a se transformar num assassino em série.
Leo
A man takes his insecure, overweight paramour to a seaside resort to consummate their relationship, but there he stumbles onto an artistic discovery that will change his life.