Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.
In a dystopian society, a government uses therapy and dreams to recover, or perhaps implant, memories to those lacking them.
Argentine history during the 20th century discovered by two teenagers, who investigate the lives of members of four different generations of the Lugones family.
