The Night of the Pencils was a series of kidnappings and forced disappearances, followed by the torture, rape, and murder of a number of young students during the last Argentine dictatorship (known as the National Reorganization Process). The kidnappings took place over the course of several days beginning on September 16, 1976.

A methodical man falls for a pregnant woman with a very particular life story.

Luisa is strange, but her life gets even stranger when she abruptly loses her job and her only companion, her cat Tino, dies. Looking for a way to lift her head, she finds a new way of life in the subway and realizes she's not as alone as she thought.