Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.

A silent film from the 1920s with intertitles, narrating the vicissitudes of a family of Chinese peasants engaged in rice cultivation and other crafts.