The first feature film by young Chilean filmmaker Diego Céspedes, awarded at Cannes, addresses his country's memory (it is set in the 1980s, at the beginning of the HIV epidemic) from a political perspective that takes up the question of identity and familial and affective dissidence as its banner. In a remote part of the Chilean desert, in a mining community, Lidia, a pre-teen, lives with her mother, a magnetic trans woman named Flamenco, and her companions in a nightclub run by the powerful matriarch Mamá Boa. This unorthodox family unit is threatened when a mysterious illness begins to spread, affecting both the miners and the residents of the nightclub.