Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and relocates to the city. She gets a job as a cleaner and tries to make ends meet in a dingy apartment in a run-down neighborhood of a big city. She is pregnant, and the fact that her boyfriend has abandoned her does not help matters. When her father is admitted to the hospital for surgery, her mother visits her. Her neighbor, an elderly recluse whose only companion is his dog, begins to emerge from his shell, and these three lost souls try to give each other the courage to begin again.
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Maria, whose parents live in the country, cannot stand her father's authoritarian ways and relocates to the city. She gets a job as a cleaner and tries to make ends meet in a dingy apartment in a run-down neighborhood of a big city. She is pregnant, and the fact that her boyfriend has abandoned her does not help matters. When her father is admitted to the hospital for surgery, her mother visits her. Her neighbor, an elderly recluse whose only companion is his dog, begins to emerge from his shell, and these three lost souls try to give each other the courage to begin again.
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