Julio Carrasco

Three boys, after participating in the events of 1968 in Mexico, find themselves in the need to get away from the social struggle

Julio rencontre un vieil écrivain qui cherche un assistant pour dactylographier son dernier roman, mais il n’est pas retenu. Pour donner le change à Blanca, sa maitresse occasionnelle, il décide d’écrire un manuscrit qu’il fait passer auprès d’elle pour celui du romancier. Il s’inspire de son histoire d’amour passionnelle avec Emilia, huit ans plus tôt, lorsqu’ils étaient tous deux étudiants en littérature et que chacun prétendait avoir lu Proust… Où commence la fiction, où s’arrêtent les souvenirs ? Dans ce va-et-vient entre littérature et réalité, les sentiments deviennent aussi complexes et fragiles que l’architecture délicate d’un bonsai.

The lives of Rolo, Chino and Boby take different courses since the student movement of the 60’s. Some years later, the friends meet again. Rolo has turned into a guerrilla fighter, Boby into a businessman and Chino into an embittered and solitary man.

An intimate play evolving around three main characters: an adult woman, her mother and her female lover. Two days in their lives occur in two opposing setting, everyday life in the demanding metropolis of Santiago and a sailboat trip cruising a beautiful bay. The three character remain trapped in a claustrophobic confrontation. The film dialogs with 'Knife in the water' from the side of women, an intense character drama with many involuntary humorous scenes. The eternal, never completed quest of seeing and recognizing the other as they are or, at least, as they want to be seen.