Martín Echenique (Federico Luppi) is an Argentine film director who has been living in Madrid for more than twenty years. He hates his country and refuses to indulge in nostalgia. His son, whom everyone calls Hache (Juan Diego Botto), is 19 years old and lives in Buenos Aires with his mother. Neither study nor work; walks around and plays his electric guitar. After five years without seeing each other, they meet again in Buenos Aires when Hache suffers an overdose. Martín's ex-wife proposes that the boy live with his father. Two people are waiting for them in Madrid: Alicia (Cecilia Roth), Martín's lover, a woman younger than him and tired of being with a man who is incapable of assuming any commitment; and Dante (Eusebio Poncela), an actor who is Martín's best and almost only friend, and whose greatest pleasure is living on the tightrope. Martín shares his life with passionate people, but he does not allow himself the luxury of feeling. The one who loves is exposed to pain, and that makes him panic. (FILMAFFINITY)