An inspector hunts down a Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the late 1940s for joining the Communist Party.

Delving into the myth of literary giant Pablo Neruda, Pablo Larraín fashions a clever subversion of the biographical genre. A whirlwind of meta-cinema starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Larraín’s “anti-biopic” inhabits the poet’s idiosyncratic universe to become a truly Nerudian film.