Synopsis

The time is the present and the place, a country that is probably Chile but could by any country that has given itself a democratic government just after a long period of dictatorship. The period is the immediate aftermath of the dictatorship. The events take place at a beach house on the night that the lawyer, Gerardo, is asked to investigate the crimes of the recent past. The wife, Paulina, was one such victim... And when Roberto gives her husband a lift after his tire blows out, she recognizes in his voice the suave menace of the doctor who raped her, who judged how much current to send through her body.