It’s 1948 and the Cold War has arrived in Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and popular poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to escape from the country with his wife, the painter Delia del Carril, but they are forced to go underground.
as Oscar Peluchoneau
as Pablo Neruda
as Delia del Carril
as Picasso
as Martínez
as Jorge Bellet
as Victor Pey
as Pepe Rodríguez
as Álvaro Jara
as Bianchi
as Jorge Alessandri
as Gabriel González Videla
as Drunk Woman
as Rubén Azócar
as Border guard in Argentina
as Radio Interviewer
as Senator