Neruda plot
"A renowned poet. An unknown inspector. A legendary manhunt."
A portrait of Chilean Nobel laureate and poet Pablo Neruda. The story is set between 1946 and 1948 when the Cold War hits hard. Neruda, then a member of Chile's Communist Party and a senator, strongly criticized the government's detention of striking miners. Chile's president demands Neruda's arrest. Fleeing the Chilean police, led by Inspector Oscar Peluchonneau, Neruda begins writing "Canto General", a chronicle-in-poetry of Latin America of more than fifteen thousand lines of poetry. No one in Latin America has ever written a poem of that magnitude or with obvious sympathy for the Latin American masses. Still, Peluchonneau is determined to extradite Neruda to his president.