Panceta works in a pipe factory and lives in a poor neighborhood with his mother, selling makeshift guns to local goons. He meets Clara at a party and they decide to elope together, but the local mob boss goes after them.

Luisa is strange, but her life gets even stranger when she abruptly loses her job and her only companion, her cat Tino, dies. Looking for a way to lift her head, she finds a new way of life in the subway and realizes she's not as alone as she thought.