Fernando Osorio

Roberto has just been laid off due to his advanced age and diabetes. With his severance pay, he decides to buy a van and learn to drive so that he can take a trip with his wife Hilda to the town of their youth, Taltal, on the Pacific coast of the Chilean desert.

Armando, a former port union leader, lost his left leg after being tortured during General Pinochet's coup d'état. He lives with his niece near the port of Valparaiso. Reclusive and sad, he must face the imposing sailing ship La Esmeralda every day, which served as the base for all the regime's atrocities. But today, Armando is starting a new life.