The imaginary is as real as the tangible. A walkie talkie can be the gateway to the impossible. Flowers trace memories. People could be invented. Ten-year-old Mateo discovers all this as he navigates a great absence.

Lucas and a group of friends decide to make a Sci-Fi movie without knowing that they live in a world where that is forbidden. They become the only hope of rebellion, the only hope to bring down a decaying empire and generate a new revolution that awakens the sleeping people.