Emilia Ossandón

Fictional stories about Chilean historical events that shook the country through joy, horror, excitement or sadness, and where the great virtues and defects of its national idiosyncrasy were expressed, that marked the lives of many people.

Since their parents split up, Sara and her younger sister live with their mother, whose new partner is a woman. Everyday life for the four of them is hardly any different than it is for other families. But not everyone sees it that way – Sara's father in particular has his doubts. As Sara’s 13th birthday approaches, she feels rather overwhelmed: her first crush, a body in the midst of changes and to top it off, conflicts over loyalty with her parents.

It’s Christmas season. Ten years have passed since Lina traveled to Chile to work as a domestic worker away from her son who lives with her grandmother in Peru. Manuel, a former employer, ask her to supervise the construction of a swimming pool for his daughter Clara in his new house. In this half-inhabited space, Lina spends the day taking care of Clara, while at night, she has furtive sexual encounters with strangers that confront her with her deep solitude.

Rocío is a single mother who lives isolated with her two children in Constitución, a town heavily affected by the fires in 2017 in southern Chile. Convinced that other people want to hurt her family, she strictly educates her children at home and doesn't allow them to leave, untill the point that her fears of the dangers of the outside world will put the in risk the life of her youngest child.

While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.