After a long night’s shift, Amparo, a single mother of two, returns home to find her children are not there. Her eldest son Elias failed to pick up his little sister Karen from school. Elias is a troubled young man; he didn’t study and doesn’t work. While searching for him, Amparo soon finds out that he has been drafted as a “regular soldier” during an army raid and will be sent to the front in a feared war zone, far from the city. His fate is doomed. With only a single day left until his departure, Amparo manages to contact a man who offers to change his exam results and get him out— but the money he asks is well beyond her means. With nothing much on her side, Amparo decides to embark on a journey against time in a society ruled by corrupt and empathyless men, acutely aware that the task at hand is an almost impossible undertaking. In the end, she must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her family together and her son away from war.