Cusicanqui Films

The narration of two parallel stories tells the history of the student movement in Chile. A teenager immersed in the political climate of his school and a former prisoner of the Pinochet dictatorship will find in the social mobilization the meaning of their own story.

Karen, a former professional soccer player born in Puente Alto in the southern part of Santiago. Rosa, her grandmother, assumes the role of mother and becomes a fundamental piece in Karen's life and career. In 2008 Karen begins a love relationship with her neighbor Mariel, a year later they get married in the company of family and close friends. Coto, Mariel's father, never questioned the relationship and accepts that Mariel and Karen move in with him. They will share, joys, fears, life and also death. A record that moves between madness and lucidity, an invitation to feel the heroic act of simply being and being. To resist.

Rafael Egaña (38) will soon be blind. With us, he makes the journey of the images that his father, an amateur photographer, has collected for more than 50 years. These images are memories, but what happens to them when vision is lost, do they disintegrate along with the visible world or do they become clearer because new ones can no longer be generated?