Based on Roberto Bolaño's 2002 novel Una novelita lumpen, the film stars Manuela Martelli and Rutger Hauer.

Narrated from the future, Bianca tells how she and her brother, Tomas, are orphaned after their parents die in a car accident.

Tomas, who believes that accidents cause supernatural change to reality, shifts his interest from computers to bodybuilding, and he begins to skip school to hang out at a local gym, where he takes a job as an unpaid intern.

Two local personal trainers from the gym befriend Tomas and teach him how access subscription pornographic content for free.

Eventually, they approach her with a plan: seduce and rob a retired actor and bodybuilder who is rumored to have hidden his wealth in his decaying mansion.

[6] Alissa Simon of Variety wrote, "Even though mood trumps character psychology, the entire cast provides mesmerizing, evocative performances.

"[8] Mark Adams of Screen Daily wrote, "Alicia Scherson's mannered and times perversely mesmerising film is an intriguing look at psychologically damaged people struggling to find moments of love and affection in a world conspiring against them.

"[9] Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times made it a NYT Critics' Pick and wrote, "Ms. Scherson’s style — backed wholeheartedly by the cool cinematography of Ricardo de Angelis — may value mood over information, but it's the perfect vehicle for a portrait of two damaged souls grasping for a security they no longer possess.

Following a dubiously motivated opening homage to the aerial highway shot that begins The Shining, the film is a good-looking series of ambitious tropes and contrivances that don't seem to express much significance, even when it settles into its own haunted-house setting halfway through.