Don’t go looking for chaos

Pablo, a Chilean exile living in France for the past thirty years, brought up his daughter Victoria with love, and in silence, concealing from her his past life marked by dictatorship, prison and exile. When Victoria, at the age of eighteen, goes to Chile alone and suddenly cuts off all contact with him, Pablo is obliged to return to the country he fled. Confronted with his past, the father’s quest becomes a path to the truth, where speaking out becomes a necessary requisite for loving.

Don’t Go Looking For Chaos is the story of a man confronting his own silences and the impossibility to communicate. With her evocative, sensory and deeply human style, Marion Brunet composes an incandescent novel where the intimate and History interlace; where political violence leaves its mark on bodies as much as on family bonds; where a father’s quest becomes also that of a reconciliation with oneself.

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