三个彼此相爱，相依，与死神抗争的女人。住在同一个街区。都是左邻右舍。贝尔拉不断推后自己的死亡。她与她的女儿，还是个小女孩的特伦嘉同住一间房。在临近屋里住着她们一直以来的邻居玛德琳娜。她每天都带着酒，满怀喜悦的跑到隔壁房间，以此来让三人暂时忘记自己悲惨的命运。

Peter, a young German, enters a suburban Buenos Aires restaurant; seeking only directions, he instead accidentally ends up with a plate smashing into his head, thrown by the irritable Olinda, the 60 year-old Italian immigrant owner of the restaurant. The two develop a friendship once they discover that the reasons for their having moved to Argentina are strikingly similar.

Injustice and the demands of the world can cause stress for many people. Some of them, however, explode. This includes a waitress serving a grouchy loan shark, an altercation between two motorists, an ill-fated wedding reception, and a wealthy businessman who tries to buy his family out of trouble.