Valentina was at the edge of the world, where ocean currents clash and glaciers torpedo the rocks…
In Patagonia, Tierra del Fuego, where nature tears itself apart, two destinies intertwine. On one side, Valentina Silva, one of the first female doctors in 1950s Chile, called to care for estancia workers while political repression simmers. On the other, Luis Echerrin, a young man from Le Havre, son of a disappeared victim of Pinochet’s dictatorship and an exile, who in 1998 sets out in search of his roots, hoping to decode his mother’s silences.
Valentina faces the obstacles on the path of an independent woman and the twists of a budding love for a stranger. Luis immerses himself in the culture of the gauchos while gradually uncovering his parents’ history, before discovering himself.
The glaciers of the Andes, the fjords, and the pampas sometimes lose them, sometimes guide them, while bearing witness to the annihilation of an indigenous people, the Kawésqars, of whom the mysterious Tcefayek is one of the last survivors. This annihilation foreshadows another, irrevocable massacre — that of the environment.
Bound by a shared momentum, the lives of Luis and Valentina compose an ode to freedom amid a nature as sublime as it is ruthless.
