Silvio Astier is a teenager. Scientific genius and repressed poet, he lives his poverty with humiliation, vainly trying to escape from it at all costs, increasingly plunging into a dark pessimism as he fails in his attempts.
In a saturated atmosphere of sinister and ruinous characters of a Buenos Aires of the early twentieth century, crowned with grotesque and desperate situations, the young man is the object of contempt and indolence of his surroundings. And in spite of everything, there will be an outcome that will free and condemn your soul at the same time; redemption and punishment.