César, a 28-year-old man involuntarily committed by his father in 1930 to a psychiatric institution of the colony type, searches for a way out of the hell of imprisonment. Hallucinating from all the violence, he recalls events from his life that brought him there. Amidst repressed memories and dreamlike visions of the horrors he endures there, César seeks the memory of the man he loved, as a safe haven amid the suffering of the fading days.
