Bestiario profano

Hija de Perra was a transvestite artist who would become an icon of dissidence and a benchmark for Latin American underground, after she died in 2014. Multiple intimate and unpublished audiovisual footage, captured by her filmmaker best friend, reveal how this character came about. She experimented in music and film, wrote texts for the academy, and turned his cross-dressing into a political action, questioning gender and sexual identity.

"Hija de Perra" (Daughter of Bitch) , a woman who together with his servant and slave "Perdida" (Lost) are engaged in selling in a free fair pies of pine made of human flesh. The obsession of Hija de Perra to revive Caballo, her dead husband, leads her to come into contact with supernatural beings capable of returning life to her beloved, in exchange for a great offering.

Diego is a twenty-year-old Chilean boy who spends every day taking pictures of anything he sees. After many years he meets Sebastian, his childhood friend, and they spend a whole summer together drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana and walking around in the blazing sun of Santiago. They both come from dysfunctional families (Diego's mother is an alcoholic and Sebastian feels abandoned by his father and his stepmother), but the need to discover the world around them and explore their inner feelings brings them closer to each other, making their friendship very, very intense. The desire that ties them to each other is palpable, and soon barriers and fears fall, leading them to wonder what they really want.

In early 1970s Chile, a group of poor transvestites and homosexuals try to survive in the center of the capital, amid a hostile environment. Tired of police abuse, homophobia, and discrimination, they decide to organize an unprecedented protest in Santiago’s Plaza de Armas. All of this unfolds amid the political and social tension leading up to one of the most violent coups in Latin American history.