A man about to be executed asks for a miracle: for time to stop. The miracle happens and he writes a story in which he tries to cheat death. Death overtakes him in reality and fiction.

A man shaves under the watchful eye of a cat. His beard becomes a cat and the cat a beard. The film merges the two concepts of chimera: as a noun, it is the result of imagination that tends not to come true; in Greek mythology, a figure with the hybrid appearance of two or more animals.

Adan mourns the loss of his family in the house where the used to live.