In this unconventional dramatic thriller, a poor family living in dire situations receive a risky yet rewarding offer of providing a hiding place to a foreign drug dealer (César Bordón). 

The family, consisting of Irene, her husband Jairo, their 9-year-old son Jean and Irene’s 88-year-old bed-ridden father – are making a living selling charcoal made from demolition timber, a little cooking and catering from Irene, and whatever labouring work Jairo can be bothered to pick up from the neighbours.

But, a visit from the kindly and pragmatic local community nurse might offer the family a respite from poverty. Throw your dad into the charcoal oven, she suggests to Irene – and then take in a fugitive Argentinian drug-lord as a temporary boarder. The family need the money – and Miguel the cocaine-baron needs a place to hide while his new false identity is being arranged. What could possibly go wrong?