A delinquent from the suburbs of Montevideo, fond of the guitar and singing, plans, thanks to the help of a journalist, to appear at a rock festival. The police, who have found out about his plans, hope to catch him.

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.