 Paloma, una joven psiquiatra adquiere la posición de Directora en una clínica de Galicia. El primer paciente que conoce le despierta un especial atractivo. Mario, padece el Síndrome de Korsakov una forma de amnesia algo espectacular. Su memoria a corto y largo plazo es perturbada y el sufre por ende de un déficit de la percepción temporal. Paloma descubre en Mario un ser fascinante más allá de un paciente cualquiera. Intrigada, emprende un recorrido por el pasado de Mario y durante el curso de las conversaciones la relación toma un rumbo inesperado. It s a hotel with walls in the corridor covered with striped paper, crossed like bars of a dingy prison, its rooms as large as cells. The Select Hotel is a dead end place for those who do not have enough cash to go somewhere else. The last shelter for those who hang around at night. These shadows walking silently along the streets, selling their poor body heat for a few crumpled banknotes, swallow and digested by their voracious thirst for a cheap high. Enough to forget for a while the distress of a ruined life and to dream of a more rejoicing elsewhere. Nathalie and her brother Tof struggle against this futureless world. Pierre, a shoe-repairer, troubled by Nathalie s grace will take part for a while to the life of these two children of misery.