Carmen, a seamstress who prepares for a local party with friends and family, loses control and commits an irrational act after one of her love's ex-partner returns and threatens her and her daughter.
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.
Could a brilliant composer's music actually be killing his loved ones? Eliseo can't help but believe it when his younger sister dies tragically and then his pianist Georgina suddenly dies on the piano. Completely traumatized, Eliseo is taken to a mental hospital where he can find escape only through music.
A couple moves from the rural area of the country to the city, looking for better live opportunities during times of unemployment and poverty, in which dreams seem far from coming true.
