Omar Saavedra Santis

A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.

Sofía, a psychology professor, has just completed her postgraduate studies in Valparaíso, and is returning to her hometown of Valdivia when a girl’s body is discovered there. The news dismays the city's residents, and triggers memories of sexual abuse from her childhood.

For five years Rogelio, a Chilean exile, has been in the GDR, where he works as a lighting technician at a theater. Though his colleagues try to make him feel welcome, he feels lonely and isolated.

A group of girls from a humble little town in the middle of the desert disappears systematically without the police or the authorities taking action on the matter. Families desperately seek help, but are faced with bureaucracy, discrimination and total abandonment.

Helga Gunkel and Flora Gutiérrez, the first women of the Chilean police, are on the trail of a criminal who has returned for revenge on Kerren, a small southern town.

The story focuses on the rehabilitation of different people who for different reasons have turned to drugs, alcohol, pills and other types of toxins in order to forget their problems.