In a rundown area of Buenos Aires, at the dawn of the 1980s, Adrian LeDuc owns both a struggling movie theater and a shabby apartment building filled with eccentric, squabbling tenants. To make ends meet, Adrian takes in a roommate, Jack Carney, but soon begins to suspect that the quiet American is responsible for a series of political assassinations that are rocking the city.
A long-distance bus is assaulted, and in the tragic event the wife and son of a well-known lawyer die. After three months of rest, he leaves the hospital, with only one thing in mind: to avenge the death of his loved ones.
In three corners of the Buenos Aires neighborhood known as Recoleta, life and death pursue parallel paths. One of silence, death, rebellion and drugs. Lecube is staying in a hotel with his lover Celia and his son Marcelo with whom his friend Toto is trying to initiate a homosexual relationship.
An Italian businessman confronts the suitors of his 4 daughters but, one day, a count appears.