Julio is studying literature in Valdivia and he falls in love with Emilia. Years later, he meets a writer who needs someone to transcribe a novel. A secretary who charge less than him get the job, but Julio doesn't give it up and decides to produce a manuscript that seems identical to the one he saw during his job interview. Without a plow, he turns to the novel that had linked him to Emilia when he was a student.
Eloy is a process server. Every day, he delivers about a hundred notifications and gets in touch with 100 stories, with 100 lives. He is an alienated and insensible civil servant stocked in an eternal present, mere observer of his own life. Until a series of events leads him towards the bottom of the city, towards the deepest of his life. Every notification will be a piece of the domino that will fall down as strongly as his own convictions.
Jotuomba is a fictive village, located in the “Vale do Paraíba”, Brasil. In the 1930s, the big coffee estate are going bankrupt and, when the trains stop to circulate, the cities, once rich, become ghost cities. Madalena, the village’s baker lives there, with the memory of her dead husband, who is buried in the city cemetery, now closed. Rita, a young photographer, arrives in Jotuomba looking for trains and she find the fantastic universe of Jotuomba.
They have been lucky, the camp site is located in a forest with an imposing landscape. The birds are singing gently and, luckily, there aren't many tourists. Nevertheless, Carmen and her husband Rafa aren't able to enjoy their holidays. The visit of Carmen's mother and sister causes a sham sustained by trivial conversations and supposed family affection. So much natural beauty becomes menacing, Carmen will try to defend herself and to escape as she can.
During the year, once per season, a man offers a present to his ill wife. They spent much of their life together and he observes silently the illness that is spreading, without anybody able to stop it. The four presents are simple, but they represent the most he can give: a recent-born kitten, a tête-à-tête night of love, a black and white television, a trip to get to know the snow. A meditation on love and death.
Zoológico tells about three adolescents immersed in a totally americanized reality. Suburbs, malls, Internet, pornography, violence and a bored youth in the most well-off sector of Chile. Camilo tries to adapt himself to his new family, Belén persists in recording a video to send to a television casting and Aníbal begins to distress, which carries him to adopt a violent conduct.
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