Emilia Ossandón

Depuis le divorce de leurs parents, Sara, 12 ans, et sa petite sœur Cata vivent avec leur mère et la compagne de celle-ci. Leur quotidien, fait de tendresse et de complicité, ressemble à celui d’autres familles. Lorsque leur père tente d’obtenir leur garde, l’équilibre de la famille semble mis à l’épreuve…

It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.

While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.

Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.