Diego returns to Mexico after teaching architecture in Madrid and runs into his old love Carmen. He plans a dinner for two to celebrate the end of the year. Carmen assumes that Diego will propose marriage to her that night but the unexpected arrival of Valentina (his Spanish girlfriend) and the revelation of Carmen’s secret past change the fate of the characters

Valentina's seemingly idyllic life in the US is interrupted when planning a wedding means introducing her fiancé to her scandalous family in Mexico.

Fausto faces the frustration of his ruined plans to study photography in Barcelona and the pregnancy of Carmen, he returns to Mexico and is diagnosed with schizophrenia.