Pedro a 70-year-old homosexual nurse, fervent fan of Greta Garbo, needs to free a place in the hospital where she works for Daniela, her best friend. To save Daniela, he decides to help Jean, a young man who has just been hospitalized and handcuffed for committing a crime. Peter helps him escape and hides him in his own house until he recovers and in this period, they engage affectively and sexually. This relationship will be essential for Peter to survive the loss of Daniela, but it also causes startling changes in himself and in the way he deals with loneliness.