Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they can neither remember nor forget. Felipe sees dead bodies on every corner of the city, counting them up in an obsessive quest to square these figures with the official death toll. He is searching for the perfect zero, a life with no remainder. Iquela and Paloma, too, are searching for a way to live on. When the body of Paloma's mother is lost in transit, the three take a hearse and a bottle of pisco up the cordillera for a road trip with a difference.Intense, intelligent, and extraordinarily sensitive to the shape and weight of words, this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations.

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智利圣地亚哥。这座城市被灰烬覆盖了。三个前武装分子的孩子正面临着他们既记不起也忘不了的过去。Felipe在城市的每个角路都看到了尸体，他数着这些尸体，着迷似的将这些数字进行平方计算，并与官方的死亡人数作比较。他在寻找完美的零，一条没有余数的生命。Iquela和Paloma也在寻找办法活下去。当Paloma妈妈的尸体在运输过程中丢失时，这三个孩子带着一辆灵车和一瓶皮斯科白兰地走上了一座山脉，开始了一段不同寻常的公路之旅。