Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín, during the Argentinian and Chilean wars of independence, as one of his secretaries, when he was only 15 years old.

Boris is stunned when his girlfriend Ana asks for some time apart. He doesn't know why and she can't explain it. Some time can mean so many things. How much time apart? A week, a month, years? During this imprecise period of uncertainty, Boris is left at the mercy of chance. His life transforms into an erratic urban journey: moving into a transient hotel, buying a temperamental communist-era car, meeting up with a long-lost classmate, random encounters with other women and repeatedly trying to get back together with Ana.

Blanca, a capricious, adorable and excessive woman, has made two decisions in her life. The first, 20 years ago: marrying Salvador, owner of a prosperous mechanical workshop, to abandon the poverty of Barracas, going to live "near the President's house," as she always dreamed of. The second, 20 years later: changing the old furniture of her wedding to be in tune with the times: 1955. In the midst of the bustle, an anonymous gift surprises the whole family: a brand new TV, carefully wrapped and a card: "For Blanca… .You already know who." Blanca's narcissistic Hollywood fantasies, fueled by a mysterious admirer who sends expensive gifts, her children, her close friend and a husband who vanishes from loving gaze, complete the picture of this hilarious and hilarious comedy of a family drama.

Ana works at the box office of a train station where nothing ever happens. But one day, she will have to make a decision that could change her whole life.