Maribel is a homeless woman who begs for food in the building where she once lived. There she works cleaning the apartment of a friend, Miguel, who out of pity gives her money. After getting the food and the money. She returns to the annex where she lives with her abusive boyfriend, Rafael, who ends up beating her and stealing the food that is for her daughter.

Humberto Ortiz, a frustrated journalist, becomes obsessed with discovering what happened one early morning in November, when Maribel Angarita allegedly murdered her usual attacker, his partner Rafael. The investigation of what appears to be a simple chronicle becomes an elusive metaphor for the conflict of an entire country.