In a small city in Northern Chile, between the Pacific Ocean and the Atacama Desert, a dying woman relives her childhood and adolescence in vivid detail. In the trance induced by her illness, she recalls the breakup of her family, he disappearance of her brother, the defection of her mother, her father's sexual discovery, violence and poverty played out in a degraded landscape, against the oppressive and ecstatic backdrop of religious belief. Death -- Fiction. | Resilence -- Fiction. | Memory -- Fiction. | Chile -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. | Chile -- Social conditions -- Fiction.