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Homero is fifteen, the only child of a wealthy Barcelona family who has been left alone as a result of the Spanish Civil War. His life is transformed into a fight for survival, full of loneliness but also opportunities for self-discovery.

On 10 September, 2001, Brandon Moy found himself in York with an old friend who made him remember all those old dreams they had shared as young men and which he had never achieved. Moy had a wife he loved, a model son, an endiable apartment in Manhattan and a successful job, but when he remembered everything he'd wanted to do with his life he felt he had failed.

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.