Three apartments in an old converted loft building set the stage for three bizarre love triangles. Nico, enjoys his older brother's top floor loft, while he is away on business. Downstairs, Helena, prepares for a dinner with her lover, who never shows up. In the basement, three expatriates are waiting for a phone call. A Chilean contact is supposed to instruct them to carry out a dirty job.

The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.

After a long absence, Negro Torres returns to his hometown, in Cunco, to attend his mother's funeral. There, his old cronies propose him to set up a business to buy seafood and then sell them. After improvising the preparations and returning to the town with the seafood, they face a big surprise

Three vignettes about the lives of young Chileans and their passions and frustrations over one of the century's most important rituals: football.

A second-class saxophonist's failures makes him fall into the nocturnal underworld, and eventually in jail. There he meets a manipulative and perverse mobster who senses the man's successful wife could be his key to launch a big criminal hit.

Javiera and Antonio are a young couple with two daughters and another on the way. But beneath the superficial tranquillity of their marriage hides a passionate relationship between Antonio and his wife's sister, Antonieta. The love triangle begins to lose its delicate balance when Antonieta loses her purse. A mysterious voice on the telephone extorts the lovers, moving them to take unusual actions and to confront one another with blame and doubt, ultimately forcing them to explore the true value of their relationship.