Luisa is strange, but her life gets even stranger when she abruptly loses her job and her only companion, her cat Tino, dies. Looking for a way to lift her head, she finds a new way of life in the subway and realizes she's not as alone as she thought.

Panceta works in a pipe factory and lives in a poor neighborhood with his mother, selling makeshift guns to local goons. He meets Clara at a party and they decide to elope together, but the local mob boss goes after them.