In an undetermined country in Latin America, Chile or any other country that suffered the consequences of a dictatorship, live Paulina and Gerardo, her husband . She is a woman who survived the tortures of an already defeated dictatorship; this was when Gerardo Escobar was a student and director of an underground publication. Paulina coped with the pain without betraying her boyfriend as the torturers claimed. She now lives with her combat partner (Gerardo), in a completely isolated beach house near the cliff. Escobar, now a republican judge, was named to a commission investigating deaths that occurred under the previous regime. Fate is favorable that Roberto Miranda, the doctor responsible for keeping the victims alive until they confess and who at the same time condemned them to the worst hell, comes one night to the cliff house. She recognizes his voice and decides to make him confess, in an imitation of judgment (reason), while waiting for the truth to emerge and thus probably her soul regains the peace it has lost. . This is the story based on a play by the Chilean writer Ariel Dorfman, which opened our new cycle "Forgiveness, hum! Almost always so difficult...". And in reality, forgiveness is a concept whose complexity is demonstrated by the same attempt to define it. In this way, it was verified during the conversation after the film. What is excusing? Does excusing mean forgetting? Obviously not. What needs to be excused? Does an inner transformation occur from whom he asks for forgiveness and from whom he grants it? In a country where this word has been invoked so often and prostituted a few others in simulated processes...... middle of paper ...... doubt it provokes us. In particular, the waves crashing violently against the cliff make us think of the turbulence these important characters are going through at the moment. Of maximum tension, the scene in which the doctor, on his knees facing the sea, confessed and death, while the party threatens, seems to hang over his head. Neither can the magnificent actions of Sigourney Weaver as Paulina and Ben Kingsley as Doctor Miranda. Both she, with a dramatic but sober performance, and him, with a coldness that makes you shiver, give us some personalities that are totally credible in their complexity. Finally, Schubert's beautiful quartet which gives its name to the film and which accompanies it constantly, constitutes an important element as a backdrop to the events..