For an entire year, a small town up northeast Argentina undertakes the construction of a hotel. Young Isabel goes through the first-hand experience of a clash of cultures.

In a desert town in the Puna, something dark emerges from the earth. Only old Cora, her daughter Antonia and her granddaughter Serafina remain. The mother leaves for Buenos Aires, leaving the girl in the care of her grandmother, who warns her not to go near the Pachamama well.