Yermén is a transsexual in her mid-thirties that works as a tarot reader, and lives in the emblematic low-income neighbourhood of La Victoria. Looking for a sex reassignment, she decides to try for a plastic surgery TV show, where she will meet an enigmatic immigrant who wants to get an operation to look like Naomi Campbell.
In Chile, 1973, during the last days of Salvador Allende's presidency, an employee at a Morgue's recording office falls for a burlesque dancer who mysteriously disappears.
Ali must lie and say she is her wife's sister so she can be with her in the hospital. Through Ali's memories, we see the women's relationship develop as Ali faces the truth in the present.
