Anita (Alejandra Manzo) is a young girl with Down Syndrome and lives with her mother (Norma Aleandro) in the Once neighborhood of Balvanera in Buenos Aires.
Anita doesn't understand what has happened; she only remembers that her mother left to handle some paperwork, the ground began to shake and she fell off the ladder she was not supposed to climb.
Foul-mouthed, constant problems with his ex-wife and unkempt, he takes her in after encountering her at a public phone, feeding her and giving her a bed.
The mother convinced her daughter to let Anita into their family life, where she eats and asks for more.
But one day Nori got fired at work, when she returned home depressed she injured herself, Anita was the one who took care of her and comforted her.