No final da década de 1940, um inspetor (Gael García Bernal) persegue o poeta chileno Pablo Neruda (Luis Gnecco), ganhador do Prêmio Nobel, por ter se juntado ao Partido Comunista.
Photographer's Assistant
A man who grew up in exile in Venezuela returns to his native Chile to avenge the death of his father.Meanwhile a woman fled to Venezuela in the hope of finding a better life in Chile. She is a cleaner at a hospital by day and a dancer at a Santiago nightclub by night, paying for a place to live with sex.