Cold Kisses

A man returns to his home in the Colombian countryside after a long fishing night and discovers that paramilitary forces have killed his two sons and thrown their bodies into the river.

In the northern Alps, Anne, Hélène and Suzanne take turns looking after a mountain hut. Through the seasons, hikers come and go. Stories bloom and fade, leaving each of them facing the silence of their chosen solitude and the poetry of nature.

One summer, divers locate hidden weapons dating back to WWII in a lake. Louison's grandmother is said to be involved. Along with other comrades, she allegedly refused to surrender her weapons.

Iluminada has visions. She tries to understand them by writing in private journals. Her writings are poetry that no one else hears. Her life in the peripheral neighbourhoods of Bogotá, riddled with hardships, leaves her with no time or space. Until she meets Juan, a young man who seems to open up another world for her. But her relationship with a stranger is not welcomed by those who control the neighborhood.

In the darkness of a long night, the Colombian country shows another face. An invisible world takes the place of the other one. So one better stays at home and open his ears: half-human and half-beast, something is wandering in the dark. Only some people are able to face it. During her whole life, Carmen was one of them...