This movie is the best portrait of Chilean society. Ruiz show us like a group of little people with little problems, with a very special way of life. The strangest Spanish in all South American with the funniest accent too. This movie is like Martin Scorsese's Mean Street but without the crime ingredient. You must see it if you wanna know what's to be a Chilean, how you can feel believing that you're in the center of the world but actually living in the end, almost hanging from the continent. Raul Ruiz right now is living in Paris and making the most bizarre but fascinating films of the french production. "Tres tristes tigres" is very difficult to find but if you can, i tell you that you'll have a real gem.

一场意外的发生，令一名本来十分平凡的数学老师拉米诺（帕特里西奥·孔特雷拉斯 Patricio Contreras 饰）获得了被放逐的判决。就这样，拉米诺来到了一座地处偏远环境恶劣的小镇中，在这里，他并没有所为的自由，每8小时拉米诺就要到相关部门去签到一次，以证明他并没有逃跑。 在小镇里，拉米诺邂逅了名为马尔特的女子，这是一个一无所有的女人，终日生活在绝望和恐惧之中。随着时间的推移，同病相怜的拉米诺和马尔特渐渐走到了一起，他们成为了彼此唯一的心灵慰藉。终于，拉米诺的刑期满了，他获得了准许离开这座小镇，但当拉米诺想要将马尔特从这监狱般的地方带走时，马尔特却拒绝了他。

A man's wife commits suicide and appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere – under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.