A couple with two children, living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, suffering economic hardship. The father returns to his birthplace, the field, but there is his father and brother out of work, so they decided to return to the city with his family.

A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.

Maria and Tucho make a pact, and in between betrayal and horror, a love story that will last forever is born.

Le film relate l'histoire vraie de l'une des plus grandes évasions carcérales de l'Histoire, celle de 49 prisonniers politiques chiliens au crépuscule de la dictature d'Augusto Pinochet.