Interviewer
Adriana finds out the son she's expecting suffers a brain malformation that won't allow him to live outside her womb. As therapeutic abortion is illegal in Chile, she must wait until her baby is naturally born.
Lucy's Sister-in-law
A introvertida Raquel trabalha como empregada para a família Valdés há 23 anos. Amargurada e comportando-se como um membro da família, passa a entrar em choque com a filha mais velha, levando Pilar, sua patroa, a contratar outra pessoa para dividir com ela as responsabilidades da casa. Sentindo seu posto ameaçado, Raquel expulsa a nova moça com terrorismo psicológico. Essa situação vai se repetindo até Pilar contratar uma jovem inexperiente do interior, Lucy, que se mostra a única capaz de romper a barreira que Raquel construiu em torno de si.
Striptisera
Nieves has murdered the man who was tried to rape his younger brother. Sentenced to five years in prison, she is immersed in a hard and marginal world, she does yearns to one day being released and fulfill her lifelong dream: to know the flowery desert in northern Chile. When an oversight of her captors allows her to flee, her dreams will have to wait still. She dedicates herself to managing a nightclub where her former jailmates prostitute themselves.
Marcel's Friend
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.
Nurse
A determined teenager must rely on her own wits when her fractured family abandons her.
Mrs. Puebla
When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.
Quasar Prostitute
The elderly heir of a formerly wealthy and respected Chilean family, Andres, suffers from decadence and solitude. He hires young Estela in order to look after his tiranic and almost crazy grandmother. The differences in class and age don't stop Andres from courting Estela, whose fiancé Mario tries to make some money with the passions of his well-off rival. The suffocating atmosphere of the run-down mansion in the outskirts of Santiago represents the deterioration of the bourgeoisie, and sets the scene for the total collapse of Andres.
