Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.

A writer, who wants to make a film about today's Chile, departs from the usual forms of filming to grasp the mystery of things. He approaches the desired film, in the middle of a relationship crisis, caused by Marcy, a disturbing woman-child who drags him into a fascinating crazy-love relationship. And because the writer understands that true creation involves detaching himself from any subjection to the practical world and accepting the catastrophic as a form of secular holiness, he performs, in the end, an act of immense generosity.

Annelie, an anthropologist dedicated to mortuary rites, investigates her grandfather's suicide during the dictatorship. In a mansion that was once a production facility and later a torture center, she joins forces with a journalist and a mathematician to search for a fragment of film that her grandfather hid, which documents a crime.

A kimche, a Mapuche wise man, arrives at a clinic where patients are demanding more medication. But it is all an illusion: they have been killed by a weküfü, an invisible evil entity. The kimche leads them to Miñche Mapu, where spirits decide who can return to life.