1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."

Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

A hot summer. A private district with an enormous park. An abandoned plot of land in the suburbs and an uncontrollable wave of smoke spark uncertainty and chaos.

Omar wants to write an authorized biography on a dead writer and travels to a farm in Uruguay to meet the trustees - the writer's brother, widow and cute mistress/mother of his daughter.