Examines the struggles of a person petrified by the notion of human contact and intimacy. Armando, aged 50, cruises younger males within the streets of Caracas and pays them to return again to his home. He additionally repeatedly spies on an older man with whom he appears to have ties from the previous. Sooner or later he meets 17-year-old Elder, chief of a small band of thugs. Their turbulent relationship will come to imitate the violent, passionate, oppressive unpredictability of town round them.