After a police raid, commanding officer Alberto has confiscated a large sum of money from a powerful drug dealer named Bartolomé. Bartolomé is pure evil and wants his money back, so he makes a plan to recover his money that involves kidnapping Alberto's son and forcing Alberto's wife, a famous runner, to run the local marathon.

Minutes before his death in the general ward of a city hospital, Ulises, a terminal patient in his fifties, reconstructs the fragments of his life. Lauro, a young and smiling nearby patient accompanies him on his final agony, reliving all Ulises' missed opportunities.

卡罗斯在一家理发店做帮工，独立日前夕遇到了客人胡里奥，四眼相对萌生情意。小店打烊后胡里奥回来寻找卡罗斯，两人在一起度过了美好的夜晚，尽管彼此都知道，这只是一阵注定短暂的心灵颤抖。