 In 1986, a widowed man comes back to his home town in Argentina, Rosario. His seven year old son was recovered from "false parents" by the deceased mother s family, with whom he now lives: his maternal grandmother and aunt. The man tries to readjust to his new reality, and that of his friends and family, two years after his wife s disappearance, and after his own departure from town. While attempting to construct a relationship with the son he d never seen, the man makes up with his own father, and old friends. But he never forgets his wife, her strange disappearance, and mysterious death.