In Cienfuegos in the 1980s, a poetic young girl tries to make sense of her parents' volatile separation while keenly observing the reality of Cuba's dilemmas.
A white-gloved criminal, who has never used violence, has committed hundreds of crimes without ever being caught by law. Now he is in prison for a murder he did not commit. A prosecutor makes a unique proposal: for each case he helps her solve, she will have a year of her sentence forgiven.