A queer community in a Western world of smoke and sweat: Eleven-year-old Lidia lives with her beloved family in a desert mining town in northern Chile. When an unknown and deadly disease breaks out, a legend spreads that the infection is transmitted between two men through a simple glance—when they fall in love. As people blame her family and measures to combat the epidemic become increasingly drastic, Lidia must find out whether this myth is true or not.

With its poetic and surreal take on desire and fear in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic, the film transforms queer coming-of-age into a visually hypnotic allegory between reality and myth.

Diego Céspedes' acclaimed debut won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes International Film Festival and was selected as Chile's entry for the 98th Academy Awards.

Whether the love it features on screen is simple or complex, and whether it’s romantic, platonic or maternal, the film lands on tremendously moving moments that stir the soul by scrutinizing the dueling cruelty and tenderness found within its characters. It meets hatred head-on with empathy, forcing it to soften, but without letting its guard down when it comes to the uncompromising need for community in the face of severe injustice. - Variety