A man is obsessed with John Travolta's disco dancing character from "Saturday Night Fever".
Carmen, a seamstress who prepares for a local party with friends and family, loses control and commits an irrational act after one of her love's ex-partner returns and threatens her and her daughter.
The extreme poverty produced by unbridled neoliberalism in Pinochet’s Chile is an allegory for the disappeared. Based on a play by Juan Radrigán.