Jorge is an ambitious lawyer on his way to Acapulco, where he hopes to receive a promotion. His girlfriend Mónica is traveling with him. When their car breaks down, Jorge desperately starts hitchhiking. Finally, a car pulls over, and their journey continues—only to reveal that some past connections are never truly left behind.

Juan Carlos Rulfo, the son of the acclaimed Mexican writer and photographer Juan Rulfo, travels to the plains of Jalisco in search of information on his father. What starts as a tribute to a great artist, however, becomes a meditation on aging and how it's affecting the history of a generation of great Mexican literature.