A writer who pins hopes on a free-spirited 25-year-old he meets in Montevideo to get through his midlife crisis. But his day turns out to be the most unexpected and transformative day of his life.

An aging slacker finds his comfortable status quo and family dynamic disrupted when his ex-wife and her current partner decide to move from Argentina to Paraguay and take his children with them.

Loaded with food and items for a subsistence of several weeks, four people occupy an empty apartment. Beyond their names, little or nothing is known about them, nor what relationship unites them or what are the reasons for their being there. Little by little, data is appearing that could suggest some kind of secret cell.