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.

影片《聂鲁达》基于这段真实经历，讲述了诗人在上世纪四十年代遭受政治迫害而逃离智利的经过，在逃亡中他笔耕不辍，并创作出一生中最重要的作品之一《漫歌》。