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When Jorge, a Chilean filmmaker living in New York, decides to seek a statue of a Portuguese neurologist in a park in Chile, a curious investigation begins in the streets of Santiago, Brooklyn and Lisbon, but also through the history of his native country and his own family memory – for which he tries to fill in the gaps. And what if the statue were really a bust? Or just a plaque? What if, instead of being in Chile, it were in Lisbon? And what if the film were really about something else? Because, from this starting point in anecdotal appearance, Jeronimo Rodriguez creates a reflection on memory and disappearance – of people, places and things. Far from being a theoretical object, his character and alter ego is subjected to a real memorial piece of work, an investigation of the nether regions of his brain – which is lucky because his father was a neurosurgeon – which takes him to Patagonia, to see football matches dating back to the dictatorship, and leads to thoughts about Raoul Ruiz. The correspondences are forged, from anecdote to anecdote and from place to place, while throughout all the comings and goings, digressions, coincidences, reminiscences and false-tracks, one can measure the void left by the person who has died or soon will. (CG)