José Luis Sepúlveda

In a secluded house in a small seaside town live four unrelated men and the woman who tends to the house and their needs. All former priests, they have been sent to this quiet exile to purge the sins of their pasts, the separation from their communities the worst form of punishment by the Church. They keep to a strict daily schedule devoid of all temptation and spontaneity, each moment a deliberate effort to atone for their wrongdoings.

Sofía, a young journalist immersed in making an artistic documentary about the Chilean army, goes back to live with her grandmother after a breakdown in a relationship. There she meets María, a woman whose view of the military legacy contrasts with that of her grandmother, reflecting the tensions of a country marked by its history.

A man raised in a circus of drag performers recalls the dramas of his childhood at every turn. He wants his wife to die, travels to his past, and from there begins to live out that desire.

Nora Diaz is an actress obsessed with acting and lying sick. She travels towards her obsessions by testing her characters in reality, on the street. Through them, she observes and listens to the conscious and unconscious inventions of a society, the Chilean one, where truth and lie are confused.

The psychology of crime inside prisons is collected through conversations with prisoners, who provide shocking testimonies and stark confessions, and with psychologists and lawyers who specialize in the material, in a critical view of the judicial system.

Survival in a collective space becomes hard in times when social manifestations can generate their own individuality.

An old Italian immigrant, owner of a wig shop, performs endless parties animated by a soundtrack of doubles to show that it is still in force since its apogee in the dictatorship. The transition between this vertigo and the later solitude of its protagonist is the inspiration to portray a world with two faces.