About Fugitives
Fugitives, known in Spanish as Profugos, is a Chilean crime thriller and one of the first original drama series produced for HBO Latin America. The story opens in the arid expanse of northern Chile, where a deal between two criminal worlds collapses into chaos. In the aftermath, four very different men who barely know one another are thrown together and left with a single shared problem: they have to run, and they have to do it as a group, even though almost nothing about them fits.
What follows is a long flight south across the country, with the men hunted from two directions at once. Police forces want them caught, and the powerful interests they crossed want them silenced. Treated in restrained, non-graphic terms, the series keeps its attention on the pressure of the chase rather than on spectacle, watching how fear, mistrust, and necessity force these strangers into an uneasy alliance. Each man carries a private past that gradually surfaces, complicating loyalties and raising the cost of every decision.
Across its two seasons, the show pairs a tense fugitive road story with the stark beauty of the Chilean landscape, from desert highways to the colder south. Developed under the direction of filmmaker Pablo Larrain, Profugos uses its manhunt premise to study an unlikely bond formed under extreme stress, asking what these men owe one another and whether trust is even possible when everyone is running for their life. The ensemble is led by Benjamin Vicuna, Nestor Cantillana, and Francisco Reyes.
