“Critic’s pick! A sly genre exercise, an example of how political repression can squeeze a domestic melodrama until it takes the shape of a spy thriller.”
—The New York Times

“MUST-WATCH! A period thriller of beguiling power, energized by its portrait of one woman’s heroism.”
—The Daily Beast

“Finely controlled and tense with the perpetual promise of violence…[and] a hell of a performance from Küppenheim as the heroine.”
—The New Yorker

In Chile, during the reign of dictatorial terror under Augusto Pinochet, a comfortable, successful middle-aged woman is faced with the fraught choice of whether or not to shield an injured young man from the authorities in this acclaimed arthouse thriller.