Twenty-seven-year-old Cristóbal returns, camera in hand, to his native town of Chaitén, after it’s been destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Searching for his childhood home, amidst ruins, he meets Ana, a strong-willed, middle-aged woman whose sick elderly mother, María, refuses to leave town in order to seek treatment. As events unfold, these three friends form an unlikely bond and become the lost family that Cristóbal sought to recover with his photography. LA MADRE, EL HIJO Y LA ABUELA (MOTHER, SON AND GRANDMOTHER) is a reflective film, dedicated to the director’s father, that seeks to perpetuate time, in keeping intimate day-to-day conversations and family moments alive, to cheat time and death.
