A friendly priest, always open to spontaneous grace and everyday philosophy, guides the residents of Sapucay, a small and forgotten town in the province of Corrientes, in their protest against the mayor's intention to close the only school in the area to build a casino in its place.

An incestuous love affair. Meme and Jeremias are the younger children in a typical bourgeois family. Their mother Lucia is the dominant force in the household, but her fixation on upholding the niceties of upper middle class life has prevented her from seeing what is going on under her roof. When the siblings’ older brother and his fiancee arrive home for their wedding, it seems inevitable that the concealment will be impossible to sustain. But equally it becomes apparent that if Lucia were to find out about the affair, there would be catastrophic consequences.