Twenty-seven year-old Cristobal returns, camera in hand, to his native town of Chaiten, after it's been destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Searching for his childhood home, amidst ruins, he meets Ana, a strong-willed, middle-aged woman whose sick elderly mother, Maria, refuses to leave town in order to seek treatment. As events unfold, these three friends form an unlikely bond and become the lost family that Cristobal sought to recover with his photography. LA MADRE, EL HIJO Y LA ABUELA is a reflective film, dedicated to the director's dead father, that seeks to perpetuate time, in keeping intimate day-to-day conversations and family moments alive, to cheat time and death.