'In the hour of shipwreck and darkness, somebody will save you...'
The title drawn from a Neruda poem, this meditation on the freedom exile can bring but which wealth may not, on the consequences of the choices we make and those which are made for us, on the violence that lives just beneath the respectable everyday, explores life in Chile through a disparate cast of characters: the daughter of an exile who has returned — the mermaid, a Scottish academic writing about Chile's violent past and present, an activist who takes avoidable risks, and an aging aristocrat who has claimed as his son the child of a woman he cared for after she was raped and tortured, amongst others.