The film depicts the incredible metamorphosis of a clerk whose sense of identity and pride are reawakened by an unexpected development.

Nina is 12. Her mother, Nazca, who was laid off from the factory, finds work at a remote mountain dairy. Nina cannot continue her studies, but this is the only way to avoid repeating her mother's fate.

After his mother's death, Ivo, a 13 year old boy, develops super sensitivity along with his big imagination and difficult character. He runs away from his home and forms a friendship with the unemployed Ivan, who turns into his guardian angel.

A small town movie theater manager is tortured by childhood trauma of having abandoned his mentally ill brother die in a fire.