

A Paris model must return to Madrid where her grandmother, who had brought her up, just had a stroke. But spending just a few days with this relative turns into an unexpected nightmare.

After a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the newly detained youth are offered an opportunity to have their charges dropped by volunteering to provide care to the elderly.

Governmental oppression puts Reynaldo in a "reformatory" form which he manages to escape. He tries to survive on the streets of Havana. Hopes, disappointments, rum, humor, and hunger accompany him until he meets the two life artists.