Four friends visit a rural locality of Chile, are brutally attacked by a man and his son. After not finding help in the town, they decide to confront these men with the help of a pair of policemen. But in this way, they will discover that their attackers have in their blood the direct legacy of the darkest period of Chilean history and will have to face the most brutal enemy.
Direction
Rojas weaponizes rural isolation until you feel trapped too.
Acting
Daniel Antivilo's patriarch chills without speaking.
Production
Decrepit locations that reek of actual rot and secrets.
Director
Lucio A. Rojas
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film directly references Colonia Dignidad, the actual German-Chilean sect where Pinochet's regime tortured dissidents. Rojas grew up hearing whispers about these sealed communities.
Rojas cast actual local non-actors from the filming region; some had family who disappeared during the dictatorship, blurring fiction with lived grief on set.
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