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In the streets of Recoleta, a commune located in the northern sector of the city of Santiago, capital of Chile, there are people marginalized from society, addicted to base paste. In this documentary we meet El Rusio (40), Christopher (24), Andrés (25), Claudio (37), Marcela (41) and Elba (63). Who through their narrations make us understand their point of view of the life they lead on the street. The representation of youth as: wanting to enjoy life to the fullest; adulthood as: maturity and repentance; and old age as: loneliness. She is seen by these characters.
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After his daughter persuades him to move into a new apartment, aged widower Fred strikes up a friendship with his eccentric 74-year-old neighbour Elsa, who convinces him it's never too late to keep enjoying life. Although he seemed resigned to a miserable bedridden existence, Fred embraces Elsa's youthful enthusiasm as she introduces him to the path of life and entertains him with outlandish stories about her past life. But when he discovers Elsa's terminally ill, Fred decides to accompany her on the trip of her dreams to the eternal city of Rome to help her fulfil a lifelong ambition.

Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to her beach house. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto unexplored territories, away from the quiet life she is used to.