在这部后事剧情片中,55岁的马里奥在一间停尸房里工作，他有时也会写一点验尸报告。1973年中期，智利发生了一场大规模的政变。这段时间里，他疯狂地迷恋上了自己的女邻居南希。南希是一家夜总会的舞女。
Mario, 55, works in a morgue typing autopsy reports. In the midst of the 1973 Chilean coup, he fantasizes about his neighbor Nancy, a cabaret dancer, who mysteriously disappears on September the 11th. After a violent Army raid on her family's home, he hears about the arrest of her brother and father, a prominent Communist and Salvador Allende supporter. Troubled and madly passionate over the loss of his would-be lover, Mario begins his frantic search for Nancy.
