A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.

Children come to a hospital to visit their dying father they haven't seen for 8 years. They try to recover their relationships before he dies.

Anthology film composed of six standalone shorts.

Pancho Veloso, an old writer of celebrity articles, returns to his hometown of Chilean Patagonia after more than 40 years of having fled. When trying to write "salable" stories about that area so called "the end of the world", he will face his past and leave his imposture.

María Luisa Bombal is an underground writer in the early twenties trying to reconcile her passionate and very sexual lifestyle with her life as a socialite among Santiago's very conservative elite.

Many socially-concerned priests in Catholic Latin America have at some time left their parish churches to go and work in the fields and factories of the poor. Such priests, usually adherents of "liberation theology," are called "worker-priests." This Chilean film tells the story of how one man became a "worker-priest" and won the trust of the poor.

In this film the director's recurring concerns return: the divisions in the Chilean left, and its contradictions between what the director calls the "traditional" and the "revolutionary" left. The problem is exposed through the doubts and obsessions of a strange police chief who cannot establish the limits between critical behavior and militant responsibility.

A thief asks his wife to visit him in prison, she goes without imagining that he is planning his escape.

Sussi comes to the big city to find love and success.

A drama centered on an office worker on the verge of retirement who begins to relive both real and imagined memories.