Using humor and self-mockery, a Chilean expat comments life in Chile in the 80s. At the same time, he's lucid on the brutal military dictatorship's outcomes and nostalgic for a time when human relations were more apt to generosity and joy.
Summer 1982: the director, Yves Jeuland, made his first trip to Germany as a student, two weeks with his penpals, in Eggenfelden, a small town in Lower Bavaria. Winter 2008: the German penpals are now 40 years old and so is the director.