Buenos Aires, 1932. After a series of warning attacks from an enemy, a mafia boss decides to fake his own death and then strike back. Things don't go according to his plan.

Nehuén Puyelli and his family are of Mapuche origin, Ramón Arce purges the end of a long condemnation, both men cross their destinies in a framework of confinement, as a result of the judicial corruption prevailing in a Patagonian city. A vindictive and wealthy mother makes use of all the resources at her disposal in order to bring Nehuén to a limit situation.

A young man enters an institute for the mentally ill and falls in love with a patient from whom he will distance himself after her rehabilitation.