Josefa and Abelardo is an old couple wracked by monotony. She is quite authoritarian, and he is always trying to please her, only achieving herirritation. Sexual appetites have been decaying over the years, mostly in Josefa; whose only pleasure is the soap operas she follows with great attention....
Various family members attend a funeral in a crumbling national funeral home to grieve the loss of the eldest member of the family, a patriot and proponent for the communist revolution until his death.