Enrique (Fele Martinez), a young film director, is surprised to receive a visit from a handsome young actor claiming to be Ignacio (Gael Garcia Bernal), his school friend and first adolescent love who he has not seen in 16 years. Ignacio implores Enrique to read a story he has written as a possible film.

At first wary, Enrique is moved to make the film with Ignacio in the lead and finds that the movie begins to overlap with real life, making the men face the past and make decisions that will alter the very fabric of their existence. Repentance, duplicity and artifice will be their arsenals of choice.

Synopsis

In the early 60's, two boys - Ignacio and Enrique - discover love, movies and fear in a Christian school. Father Manolo, the school principal and Literature teacher, both witnesses and takes part in these discoveries.The three characters come against one another twice again, in the late 70's and in 1980. These meetings are set to change the life and death of some of them.