Painter Lorenzo's life spirals out of control as he fears his wife is trying to isolate him from their infant son.
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
Buenos Aires movie director, very fond of the legend of the King of Patagonia and Araucania, decides to make a movie about it. Despite of financial troubles, technical problems, misfortune and desertions, he undertakes the journey to Patagonia for the film with a second-rate actor company. Neglected by the producer and shortly after by the company, he will make the movie alone, in a surreal landscape like mad.
