Pacífico Films

This documentary follows the 1970 Chilean elections, which resulted in the election of Salvador Allende. The footage reveals the political and social divisions in a country plagued by poverty, malnutrition, and homelessness. Allende, newly elected, reflects on his future government and his subsequent assassination. One could say that this footage became a chilling and prophetic chronicle of a death foretold.

Irene, a theater enthusiast and devoted admirer of artist Paula Rego, moves between a yearning to know and the fear of what she might uncover. Through Rego’s haunting work, she finds a doorway into her father’s past. In an imagined dialogue with the dead, she seeks out Emilio — a retired soldier she suspects may have carried the weight of unspeakable acts.