It’s 1948 and the Chilly Conflict has arrived in Chile. Within the Congress, distinguished Communist Senator and in style poet Pablo Neruda accuses the federal government of betraying the Celebration and is stripped of his parliamentary immunity by President González Videla. The Chief of Investigative Police instructs inspector Óscar Peluchonneau to arrest the poet. Neruda tries to flee from the nation together with his spouse, the painter Delia del Carril, however they're pressured to go underground.
