In an all-girls boarding school, one of the students resists the will of her uncles to marry her off because she does not know her future husband. Which is why she pretends to be a prude for whom marriage is a dirty word.

Marcelo and Sofía love each other, but both suspect the other of infidelity. Marcelo, a film director, accidentally discovers condoms in Sofía’s purse. They are really for Marcelo’s younger sister, but he thinks the discovery confirms his suspicions and keeps one as evidence. Sofía discovers the condom in Marcelo’s wallet and takes for granted that he is cheating on her. Pepe, Marcelo’s cousin, pretends to be him to impress a girl, further complicating the mix up.

In 1980, Ricardo Rifo was instructed as a dog trainer by Ingrid Olderöck, the most powerful woman of the secret police during the Chilean dictatorship. Four decades later, in the midst of an inhospitable and devastated landscape, the farmer wanders besieged by the impossibility of enunciating the horror.