Dorotea, perfectionist and authoritarian, prepares the celebration for her mother's 70th birthday. Her brother accidentally dies before lunch and Dorotea, along with the family, come up with an absurd plan to prevent their mother from finding out.
Antonia and Genaro, two young people who meet in a Santa Fe neighborhood movie theater in 1978, share movies every week until she is kidnapped by the military band that devastates the country. Forty years later, Genaro returns to the cinema.
