Assetto produttivo: Chile

In a Venezuela in crisis, two former schoolmates are united by moral and existential doubts. Roberto, a rigid idealist who works for the Ministry of Transport, struggles to make ends meet but promises to never abandon his homeland and looks down on those who abandon the country. Selina, a reckless expatriate scion, works illegally in Italy and is considering getting married to obtain documents, a situation she hides from her wealthy family in Venezuela. When Roberto receives what seems like an extraordinary job opportunity abroad and Selina becomes trapped in Venezuela during the Christmas holidays, the two are faced with a difficult question: will they stay to rebuild their homeland or face the uncertainties of life as immigrants? The film is an immersion in the deep economic and social crisis of Venezuela. It portrays both physical and moral hunger, revealing how corruption infiltrates a society from the top down until it crushes it, from the highest political officials, through petty bureaucrats, to individual citizens. The narrative focuses on stories of daily violations of human rights, made of violence, abuse of power, malnutrition, lack of education, social inequality and economic devastation. This is the scenario that triggers mass migration, a process that changes the physiognomy of our human landscapes.