Diego dreams of being a soccer player while he sleeps. In his dream, his homework and the demands of sports bureaucracy prevent him from finding the ball, so he decides to try out for another club. However, he takes the wrong bus, which drops him off at an old National School, which has been transformed into a children's party house. There, he becomes trapped by Beba, its manager, who, in order to take complete control of the fundraising, forces him to work for food and commit a crime: killing Raúl, the business boss.

Manuel is a theater actor who plays a clown. He is abandoned by his wife and begins an inner search.