Pedro Gaete

The film is about Eloy, a Chilean bandit and companion of Joaquín Murieta, who is wanted by the justice system on the border with Argentina. Although an escape seems impossible, in desperation he flees without a fixed destination.

Four drunken literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.

This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.

A Chilean returning to Santiago to find out what has happened to his native country while he has been away, discovers much about himself.