Jaime Flórez, a shrewd provincial, has a stroke of luck when he is treated as a king in a town that confuses him with an important international diplomat.
Augusto, a lift operator in an advertising agency, learns that his mother has died in the village where she lived. A long, anxiety-filled day follows until he gets permission to go to the funeral.
Shot between 1962 and 1963, this film takes place in a cyclical time during which a day of the urban daily life of Bogotá and its inhabitants is presented in the early 60s of the last century, from one dawn to another dawn, amalgamating the images with the musicalization of Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris by George Gershwin.
Augusto, a lift operator in an advertising agency, learns that his mother has died in the village where she lived. A long, anxiety-filled day follows until he gets permission to go to the funeral.