Alejandro Zambra

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.

Adaptation of the novel “Chilean Poet” by Alejandro Zambra.

Summer of 1990. Chile and the world are going through great changes. In a small beach town off the Chilean coast, an eclectic group of teenagers, from very diverse social upbringings, are living their own transition to adulthood. These kids are actually guided by a director, who is trying to make a movie, and above all, to recreate an era that affected him, in a country where these kinds of social encounters are not possible anymore.

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.