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Three stories rooted in violence, mental erosion and hopes that ran through Chile's soul.

A young horse-tamer is wrongly accused of theft.

Rafael, an old butler of a decadent farmhouse, lives with his landlord in that space. He develops a series of actions and daily routines that resume a life and a glorious family past. These actions and gestures will become the only way of sustaining that home and those lives humbled in memory. With the decline of that environment, Rafael will be underdog of his place and his own story, and will be forced to leave in an uncertain trip, towards the last of his possessions.

A ruthless thief has a change of heart after being mortally wounded and wants to carry the town's cross on the Way of the Cross in order to save his soul.

Monitoring of the Maule River through its route through the central zone of the Chilean countryside, recorded during the four seasons of the year and at different times of the day. Some people who live there, from mountain range to coast, are giving their testimonies through stories, impressions or anecdotes. (Alicia Vega)

Notes from a trip to the countryside landscape of central Chile (Maule). Dawn, men by a campfire, a boy prepares a basket to catch animals, a man with vine shoots on his back, men hunting rabbits, a man lying in bed with a Virgin by his side talks about his children who have departed, castration of a animal while the peasants cast carvings, songs and a procession of a Virgin with candles. A woman talks about Saint Sebastian who has cured her son. Horse race. Party at sunset with voices, Mexican music and boleros. Group of men in front of a campfire. (Info: Itinerary of Chilean Documentary Cinema 1900-1990, Alicia Vega)t