The Obscene Bird of Night

An influential Chilean aristocratic family is consumed by its desire to preserve its lineage. When the couple's son is born with a physical deformity, the family goes to extraordinary lengths to conceal him from the world. Humberto Peñaloza, a writer of humble origins who serves as the family's secretary, becomes entangled in its darkest secrets and gradually loses his sense of self. His story intertwines with the lives of the elderly women who inhabit a decaying former convent turned into an almshouse. Long forgotten by society, they form a strange, insular community steeped in superstition and mysterious rites. The crumbling building becomes a world unto itself, cut off from the outside, where past and present, memory and reality blur into an unsettling, dreamlike whole.