Juan trabaja en una mina de carbón en la ciudad de Río Turbio en la Patagonia Argentina. Anna ha sufrido la desaparición de su esposo, la única persona en el país que ella conocía. A su manera, ambos viven aislados de todo y de todos. Un accidente en el medio de la Patagonia los une. Así comienzan, muy lentamente, a construir una relación. Quizás su soledad y desconexión del mundo les permitirá salvarse mutuamente.

While the whole world gets shocked by news on life on Mars, a group of friends lives imprisoned in a mechanical choreography, a farce that can hardly be considered as life.

Sergio, Mali and Luz reluctantly agreed to spend Christmas in the country with their mother; in part because of the guilt they feel about saying no when she has just come out of the hospital after a heart attack, but also because it would be nice to escape from their frustrations for a while.

Among gunshots and boleros, a passionate relationship flourishes between a lonely transvestite and a young guerrilla during the Pinochet dictatorship.

As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.