Corazón de Alcachofa offers an ethnographic exploration into the intersection of class, gender, and domestic labour in contemporary Chile. The film centers on Horti, an 85-year-old woman who spent over six decades working as a live-in domestic worker and nanny in Santiago, logging over 70 hours of strenuous labour a week.

Through an observational lens, the project examines the deep personal and societal impacts of a lifetime spent in service: the emotional cost of being separated from her own family to raise the children of upper-class households, and the complex, enduring bonds forged between worker and employer. Rooted in the structural inequalities of Latin American domestic work, the film uncovers how historical trauma, class silence, and unpaid care work ripple across generations, asking fundamental questions about who sustains society and whose lives are remembered.