Jorge becomes obsessed when he discovers that he has the same name as a young man who died. Upon investigating, he discovers that they also share an obvious physical resemblance. To Josefina, the young man's mother, the encounter with this man awakens a ghost she thought was asleep.
After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, the son of a powerful politician.
Amanda (46), a complaisant and lonely woman, lives with her son Daniel (16) in the mountains of southern Chile. Octavio (16), a Daniel’s friend, is accidentally injured while hunting in the forest. Amanda takes over the healing sessions, developing an intimate bond with the teenager. They discover that the contact with the wound produces an addictive pleasure.
Aliyá in Hebrew means to ascend and immigrate to Israel; Yeridá, the opposite, to descend and emigrate. From family archives, the author explores his family's motivations for emigrating to Israel in the 1970s, as well as the disappointments that led to their return to Chile decades later.
During a never-ending heat wave, Tiare (28) discovers that the bar she frequents feeds on human blood.
Adrián (12), the son of a Venezuelan domestic worker, goes on an outing with the children of his mother’s employers. They get lost in the forest. Back at home, Adrián feels ostracized from the rest. This feeling leads him through a dreamy and voyeuristic journey of belonging.
Lucía and Valeria take out three Tarot cards that reveal the first two dishes of a menu that takes them from Embún, Spain to Llanquihue, Chile; the towns of their grandmothers. Among improvised still lifes, maps and video calls, the friends try to discover the meaning of the third card through a ritual that connects both continents.
Celina, a homeless and rootless woman, wanders around stealing objects, only to have something of her own that is still alien. Through the objects she steals, she establishes magical links with other characters, becoming involved in parallel stories from which she cannot escape.
A visual artist receives funding from the Chilean state to make a fiction film about the precariousness of work in the visual arts.
