The life of Rayenari changes when the poet Antonin Artaud arrives to his village seeking the spiritual knowledge of the Tarahumara. Rayenari introduces him to the Peyote ceremony. However, the poet abandons the ritual and loses his soul. Sometime later, Rayenari discovers through dreams that Artaud has been committed to a mental hospital. It will be through this connection that Rayenari will help his friend to recover what he lost.
Chile, 1976. Carmen heads off to the beach, to supervise the renovation of her family’s house. Her husband, her children and grandchildren come back and forth during the winter holiday. When the family priest asks her to take care of a young man he is sheltering in secret, Carmen steps onto uncharted waters, away from the quiet life she is used to.
In the Peruvian Andes, two siblings are raised in isolation by their father, a Tablas de Sarhua painter who exchanges his art in the village for supplies, while his children wait for him, cared for by their dogs. A series of unexpected events will drastically transform the only reality they know and will bring Sabina, the older sister, to meet her past and her culture.
Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated in an experimental penitentiary for minors in the heart of the Colombian jungle. Among the inmates is Eliú's friend El Mono, with whom he committed the murder that led to their conviction. Every day, the young prisoners do strenuous manual labour and intense group therapy. During his incarceration, Eliú meets the invisible One and transforms himself.
Socorro (67) is a stubborn lawyer in the twilight of her life obsessed with the idea of finding the soldier that killed her brother in 1968 during the infamous "Tlatelolco massacre". This obsession has affected her relationship with her sister Esperanza (70) and her son Jorge (45). Suddenly, she receives the missing clue to locate the military man and decides to carry out an absurd operation to avenge the death of her brother risking her legacy, her family, and her own life.
In a Brazil, where violence and harshness have a free pass, a rural family accepts the proposal of an international organization led by an Argentine woman to “host” a foreign guest. However, none of the family members, and to a lesser extent the guest himself, see their expectations fulfilled. When My Life is a deadpan portrait of how the naturalization of the absurd is the new normal.
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