Bonsai

Bonsai is the story of Julio and Emilia, two young Chilean students, who are seeking the truth in great literature, find one another instead. Like all young couples, they lie to one another, revise themselves, and try new identities on for size, observing and analyzing their love story, as if it's one of the great novels they both pretend to have read. As they shadow one another throughout their young adulthoods, falling together and drifting apart, Zambra spins a formally innovative, metafictional tale that brilliantly explores the relationship between love, art, and memory.