Mercedes, a lady of eighty, widow and with fear of loneliness falls in love Sebastian, a writer sixty years less than her. Mercedes will feel trapped in that body wrinkled and slow that it allows she to live that love as it should be lived.
The film focuses on the journey of General Juan Facundo Quiroga, with a very compromised health, to the north in order to resolve the conflict between the provinces of Salta and Tucuman.
An old gaucho tells his young friend about a time in the big city when he went to the Opera, and narrates to him the whole plot of Gounod's Faust. His young friend reimagines the story he's hearing, with himself in the central role.
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.