Rural

Julieta comes to the tiny village of Santa Rosa, near the capital, to escape the ghosts of the past and the burden of revenge. She hopes to find security and peace there for herself and her son. But the town hides a dark secret for those who flee there, trying to hide their skeletons in the closet.

The daughter of one of Augusto Pinochet’s bodyguards, Julieta Valdés’s life was marked by traumas: she saw her mother commit suicide, and her confessor raped her. She grew up to become a nurse and to help others. Still, her fate remanded her to the cold hiding places of the CNI, the government organ involved in the persecution, torture, and assassination of opponents of the Pinochet regime. Her life story plunged her into an internal dilemma of rejection, guilt, and desires for impossible freedom, and fleeing to Santa Rosa will only bring her face-to-face different forms of the monstrous