Antonio, after a failure at work, returns to his birthplace in Viña del Mar after being completely absent. Upon his return, he moves back with his parents, meets again with old friends and a former love, from whom he will learn to deal with frustration, accept life and shorten the distance that was not only imposed by him leaving home.

This film traces the unbelievable true story of the Calderón family, who built grand movie palaces in Mexico and the U.S., employing thousands to produce incomparable, hugely successful, and often reprehensible populist-genre films that were utterly and uniquely Mexican.