Hija

María Paz González : 2011
Daughter

The story of a mother and daughter who cross Chile in search of a relative they both don't know. The mother hopes to find her sister, while the daughter expects to find her real father. Along a 2000 kilometre road, they will be forced to confront their childhood expectations with a present which may prove to be even more uncertain and hostile than the fantasies involved in building their identities. Presented as a personal quest, it is a journey where lies become reality and where the reality takes the shape of a film: that of a documentary road movie based on imaginary facts; a story that gives meaning to the fantasies that built up their identity. The loss, the lack, the loneliness and the need of knowing their origins, the truth and the lies, the complicity and dialogues all mingle through an original yet harmonic voice into an intimate portrait of a family's origin. If telling a family's history reflects the country's one, Hija stages the origin and mythology of Chilean society.