Miguel wants the love of Helena but he dies. In order to reach heaven and avoid limbo, there is one condition, he must forget Helena, but he will try to avoid this, since he doesn't want to reach heaven if he won't be able to remember her.

This film is a chronicle of painter Frida Kahlo, and her encounter with the personalities of her time. Despite being confied to a wheelchair as a result of polio, operations and amputations, she faces and traces some of the most colorful and controversial aspects of Mexican history, during the dominant time of Mexican muralism.

In a building, at the same time a girl's birthday is celebrated and an old man who died of cold is being watched.