Elias is a successful physician and a family man. He's Francisco's father, who's about to turn thirteen. Both father and son start having nightmares which evoke their birthplace, Saudó, a grim town built upon the pain and sorrow of the many slaves that ran away and whose foundations were riddled with superstitions, fear, magic and witchcraft, turning this town into a cursed place where those who enter, will never get out.
—Jaime Rebolledo