A young couple, eight months pregnant, impulsively return from their family vacation. Halfway there, their car breaks down, and they are stranded in the mountains. In the midst of searching for shelter, they arrive at an abandoned roadside shelter. The pressure of the baby's imminent arrival and the difficulty in finding help awaken an inner labyrinth of anxiety within the young couple.

Ariel, motivated by his mother's illness, meets up with older men in order to afford her treatment. These encounters always end the same way.