A boy lost in the nights of Madrid, looking for the love he never received in his past relationships. In the mornings he does not take advantage of them, in the afternoons he fills them with beers. One day, he attends a make-up school as a model; there he meets a man who is different from the rest, someone who will teach him, without knowing it, that what he had lived before were toxic loves.

Herbert Biberman struggles as a Hollywood writer and director blacklisted as one of The Hollywood Ten in the 1950s.