Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of an elderly woman, whom Lolo trying to steal a watch that his mother had insisted, facing the young people in your neighborhood and forces him to flee, full of guilt and shame.

After the destruction of Mexico City by criminal gangs, a group of young people guided by Aztec beliefs and codices desperately search for the mythical Aztlán to inhabit it once again.