Germán Baraja gets by writing half-heartedly for a foreign magazine while everything around him collapses. Political disillusionment, addiction, and his mother’s impending death push him into a spiral of violence and self-destruction. Clinging to the absurd hope of reconciling with Clara, his ex, he seeks a redemption as unlikely as it is urgent. Because trying to rebuild what has already decayed—amid illness, exhaustion, and abandonment—feels more like a sentence than salvation.