Carlos (42) and Darío (18), father and son, go together to play five-a-side football, but there is nothing for the game. On and off the court, Carlos seeks to impose himself with his word and rough play. Darío carries the ball with skill and uses silence to avoid the harassment of his father, always unhappy with his way of being. Surrounded by men competing with each other, Darío watches and searches for himself. There is still time to choose another path.
While her filmmaker husband works in Chile, harried young mother Liz struggles to take care of her infant son. Feeling out of place amongst the tight-knit group of other parents at the park, doubted by her husband, and judged by her newly hired nanny, Liz is drawn to factory worker Rosa, a plain-talking single mother she meets at the swings one day. Despite Liz’s liberation upon finding a bold new confidante, the friends’ increasingly apparent class differences, along with swirling rumors about Rosa’s motives and muddy family situation, feed Liz’s suspicions that her new pal might be a sinister influence on her already fragile life.