A mother struggles to raise her daughter all by herself, and due to the economic difficulties decides to rob multiple finance houses, fooling her victims with the handle of her umbrella that she make them think is a real revolver.

Gregorio is a Tupamaro exiled in Spain who has returned to Uruguay. He has not yet revealed his secret: on the site where today he intends to build a house for his family there are buried weapons and ammunition from his guerrilla past.

Aurelio Saravia is a powerful politician who holds office in Uruguay in the mid-1960's. When Aurelio's mistress kills herself, he adopts their illegitimate daughter Masangeles despite the stern objections of his wife Aurora. Masangeles finds herself growing up in a home ruled by a corrupt and self-centered tyrant and his manic colleagues while Uruguay teeters on the brink of civil war as bands of revolutionaries battle government militias. When she turns fourteen, Masangeles discovers a secret passageway in their home that leads to sanctuary in a nearby church which also serves as a storehouse for guns and ill-gotten cash. Teenage Masangeles falls in love with Santiago, her stepbrother who has joined the rebels fighting against the state, and she persuades him to take her virginity.

Blas Quadra, a writer who was part of the Latin American boom of the '60s, now lives in Uruguay, blind and in seclusion while his son Gabriel is quite successful as a screenwriter in Spain. But one reporter found many similarities in the scripts of Gabriel and his father's work.

It is Nelson's first day at work. He has to conduct a survey at Mirna's house, a deprived shack in the middle of a garbage dump. But Mirna has no specific answers to any of the questions in the form.