In September 1973, 19 paper mill workers were imprisoned and taken to the Laja police station. Six years later, their bodies were found in Yumbel’s cemetery. After almost 40 years, one of the policemen involved broke the pact of silence they had made the night of the killing, revealing the participation of the Paper Manufacturing Company (CMPC) in the murder. Today, the case is still open and awaiting sentence.
Pedro Chaskel, director, editor and post-producer. Based on domestic memories, and accompanied by representative fragments,tries to reconstruct the most important works of his career and motivations.
A film about the ghosts of those letters that never reached their destination.A neighborhood detained in time that nevertheless will change irremediably and that keeps the memory of thousands of secret stories, hidden in its streets, houses and corners. Mothers who seek reconciliation with their daughters, confessions of unrequited love, loneliness and many searches for an answer that will never come.
