Cuba, 1983. Santa is a thirty-year-old peasant girl who works on a state farm. Andrés is a fifty-year-old homosexual writer who, according to the government, has "ideological problems". As is usual with those disaffected with the revolution, every time there is a political event in the area, someone is sent to keep an eye on it and prevent it from committing some act of public opposition. This time, the task of watching over the people falls to Santa. For three consecutive days Santa sits at the entrance of Andrés' cabin to supervise his every move.