Three friends are part of a fascist opposition group in the chaotic Chile of the early 70's and together commit a political crime that changes the history of the country and incidentally involves them in a betrayal that separates them forever.
Acting
Mercedes Morán's silent guilt could crush buildings.
Direction
Wood weaves two timelines like a noose tightening slowly.
Production
Chile 1973 recreated with suffocating period detail.
Director
Andrés Wood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film confronts Chile's 'pact of forgetting' after Pinochet, when left and right agreed to bury revolutionary violence alongside state terror. Wood refuses that amnesia.
The spider metaphor isn't just Antonio's nickname — Chilean audiences recognize it references the web of informants (arañas) that fractured revolutionary movements from within.
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