Loreto Valenzuela

In Santiago, Chile, the schoolteacher Luisa proposes a debate about sex with the parents of her students with the intention of giving classes about sex education to the youngsters.

Karina is 51 years old and is a regular trucker on the north route. Due to mechanical problems, he stops for the first time at "La Mamita" restaurant. The owner and cook of the restaurant, Marta, 63, welcomes her as kindly as any of her customers. However, the accidental discovery of a human hand in the garbage makes Karina see that all the stories this cook tells her are nothing more than a premonition of her destiny.

Jean is a young Haitian man who works doing house duties for a wealthy household, but his wishes for a quiet and dignified job become interrupted when his boss starts sexually abusing him. Jean will have to decide whether to quit his job and renounce the income to support his family or keep enduring the assaults.

After 20 years of exile, Aron returns to Chile to find out who he is. He asks questions, not only of those who stayed behind but also of himself, examining his relationship with his past and his own memory. The people who stayed lived through 20 years of dictatorship. They were either victims or executioners. Amidst this wreckage, Aron wonders what name his brother is using now, where his father is... Can he, in Isol's arms and through her love, find his way again ? What future awaits him? Like Mola the torturer, he has returned from an impossible journey, and Aron knows that each man is his own executioner. Shipwreck and resurrection are the two facets of a complex truth.

A Chilean exile leaves his Swedish partner to return to Chile. There he meets his old love, Consuelo.

Alejandro Silva is a 16-years-old boy who decides to leave his home, to go in search of brother, who have gone missing for some time. He embarks on the school-ship "Esmeralda". The adventures that Alejandro lives on his trip in search of his brother will mark his passage to adulthood.

Sam returns to Chile from the USA after his parents divorce. Left with a sexually-abusive nanny, he makes friends with some other neglected kids: Isabel, whose mother suffers from depression after the disappearance of her father and brother, and Daniela whose mother is dead and whose father is an alcoholic. The teenagers get together to make a slasher film dealing with family issues, and finally confront their demons.