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.

Sayen follows a lead to the picturesque desolation of the Atacama Desert. There, she reluctantly teams up with a young Atacameño girl, Quimal, looking to clear her father’s name and save her town from becoming an arid wasteland due to Acteon’s exploitative water usage.

Teenager Joana feeds her soul with literature and rock. In 1979, when amnesty is granted in Brazil, she's forced to move with her family from Paris back to the country she barely remembers. Back in the city she was born in, and where her father was forcedly disappeared, she recovers pieces of memory from a fragmented childhood in Rio de Janeiro. Not everything is real, not everything is imagination. And as she remembers, Joana must write her own story in the present tense.

A case of mistaken identity becomes a living nightmare when a young actress finds herself relentlessly assailed by debt collectors.

From the beyond, the director's grandfather tells his grandson about how, in 1939, he forged his documents to leave Chile and enlist in World War II in France. This experience echoes the Chilean "social explosion" of 2019, the scene of unprecedented violence and hundreds of human rights violations by the forces of law and order.

A frustrated writer working as a night guard struggles with writer’s block when interference on the security radio starts repeating lines from his own novel.