Nicolás Torres

A man who grew up in exile in Venezuela returns to his native Chile to avenge the death of his father.Meanwhile a woman fled to Venezuela in the hope of finding a better life in Chile. She is a cleaner at a hospital by day and a dancer at a Santiago nightclub by night, paying for a place to live with sex.

It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.

A former high-ranking financial executive finds redemption and romance when he's paroled after a prison sentence and becomes a math teacher.