In the year 1924, Colette Marchand, a young singer with the Folies Bergere of Paris, travels with her troupe to northern Chile, where they are booked to perform at a remote mining camp called Chacabuco. But when Colette falls in love with a young Agentinean, she sets off a chain of events that will determine the lives of several generations of her family to come - events that will explode into the rapidly changing social and political life of Chile.