Pedro, a nine-year-old boy who is in love with Lety, twenty-six, whom he is courting inside the wall, occasionally discovers that his neighbor Ramón dumps acid down the drain that leads to the river.
A funeral home is hired to transport a body to a neighboring country, but an irresponsible employee loses the coffin in the middle of the street in a town in Entre Ríos. From there begins a power struggle to manage the situation among the inhabitants of the town. But that coffin hides something that unleashes a silent race of greed and betrayal to see who gets it.