It's 1948 and the Cold War has Came at Chile. In the Congress, prominent Communist Senator and poet Pablo Neruda accuses the government of betraying the Party and can be stripped of his immunity by President González Videla. Investigative Police's Principle educates the poet to be arrested by inspector Óscar Peluchonneau. They are forced to go, although neruda attempts to flee from the country together with his wife, the Delia del Carril.