Gabriela returns to the port city of Valparaíso in Chile, which her family had to abandon in the ‘70s when exiled to Germany and then Spain. Aiming to break a spell of permanent transit, she moves into the run-down family home. While she renovates it, her grandfather’s sudden hospitalization awakes her grandmother’s traumatic memories, as her life partner–a survivor of a murderous dictatorship–becomes absent once again in a still revolted country, whose violence infiltrates at night through the house’s windows.

Here, the Silence is Heard is a participant of the 2022 (Egg)celerator Lab.