Farrel is a lonely, alcoholic sailor on board a ship sailing toward Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world. Upon arrival, he asks his captain if he can visit his mother—he does not know if she is still alive. Farrel embarks deep into Tierra del Fuego’s inhospitable, snowy terrain to find her.

Lisandro Alonso’s Liverpool is a film of shimmering, tremulous beauty from a modern master of Argentine cinema. As this poetic meditation on loneliness and alienation embarks on its profound voyage through time and space, the smallest of gestures become charged with a devastating emotional power.