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The fast-paced, hallucinatory lives of the outsiders in a city torn asunder by violence. A world populated by armed beggar children planning to seek revenge and get rich quick. A tramp who collects cardboard, involved in his own private, low-life crusade. Unruly prostitutes. Unimaginable drugs. A half journalist, half detective, who has been commissioned to solve three mysteries.

La Moneda, September 11 is, above all, a collection of testimonies. Four characters: a waiter, a policeman, a recruit and a fireman tell us how they lived and what they did that morning of September 11, 1973 - the day when the Chilean Army decided, following an attempt in June, to depose, the Popular Unity government, presided over by Salvador Allende, with any violence necessary.

Behind the outer face of nature lie deep mysteries, plots and unknown relationships, and time has different rhythms and different orders, with their own enigmas and truths. Faced with the straitjacket of rationalism, it is necessary to accept that the events that came together in the death of Alec are steeped in mystery.

Tomás Casademunt (Barcelona, 1967) is an exceptional artist who was forged by two decades as a photojournalist. In constant quest, he has produced some remarkable series of photographs, among which La muerte en el altar occupies a privileged place.