

A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Alejandro

Jaime

Sara / Stella Díaz Varín

Enrique Lihn
Old Alejandro

Alejandro as a child
Little Girl
General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
Alejandro / Andrés Racz
Unknown Role

Angel of death
Iris Cafe Old Waiter
Young Hugo Marín
Nicanor Parra
Police Officer
Fanny
Prophetic Drunkard

Poor Lady

Poets Society President
One-armed man
Acariciada
Clown Zanahoria / Circus Ringmaster

Truck Driver
Nene

Enrique Lihn's Mother

Enrique Lihn's Father
Assassinated Worker
Assassin Worker
Drunk Man at Cafe Iris
Clown Lechuga / Balloon Seller

Police Clown 1
Loro Mudo Goon 2
Loro Mudo Goon 4
Exhibitionist
Don Aquiles
Cafe Iris Second Waiter

Delegate
Poet
Poet
Prostitute
Drunkard
Ninja