A genetics specialist is sent to stay in a coastal inn to find the origin of an infection that has started spreading slowly.
Zew was born in a prison camp on the Island of Rhodes in 1941 during World War II. Psychoanalyst and "magician's apprentice", he looks for a way to tell his grandchildren his story, in a Buenos Aires where the lives of other immigrants converge.
An old man seems to direct the lives of the people who pass by on the street, under his balcony.
