This promising debut is a deceptively uneventful Chilean road movie in which the break-up of a middle-class marriage is seen through the eyes of the sensitive 10-year-old Lucía as she accompanies her parents and seven-year-old brother on a long weekend drive north from Santiago. There are warning shots when they steal some fruit overhanging a garden fence, a meeting with two girl hitchhikers, a stopover at a dreary motel, a family reunion at a dusty camp site, and a devastating night in the desert. The takes are long, static and not always rewarding, but Santi Ahumada's performance as Lucía has the qualities we used to associate with Italian neo-realism.