A woman vanishes. Two men take to the road in search of her: they both love her. Why did she leave? Each one of them has his own suspicions, and hides them from the other one who—mysteriously—never truly becomes his rival. Neither is right—but is anyone? This sudden runaway becomes the hidden core of a number of fictions that the film delicately weaves together: the secret of the heart of another woman, lost as well, many years ago; the secret of the life of a village in the countryside, governed by a supernatural incident that nobody seems to perceive; the secret of the plains, which never ceases to spread and devour everything, like the shadows that invade the world after the twilight hour.
Carlos Galindo(德米安·比齐尔 Demián Bichir 饰)是一个从墨西哥偷渡到美国的无户籍认识。老婆早已离他而去,如今的他和14岁的儿子Luis Galindo相依为命。儿子在学校因为自己的特殊身份遭受同学的歧视和欺负,但他总是沉默对待父亲的询问,隔阂在两人间越来越深。为了能让自...己和儿子过上更好的日子,Carlos努力干活ping命令赚钱。他的一个园丁,平日里的工作就是为了各式各样的美国富人修剪草坪。他的老板因为想回国而出售自己的二手卡车和园丁必备工具。希望可以转更多钱的Carlos找自己的妹妹借了钱买来了人家淘汰的旧卡车和园丁必备的工具。可是有一天,Carlos赖以生存的旧卡车竟然被街区里的小混混Santiago(卡洛斯·琳娜蕾丝 Carlos Linares 饰)偷走。在焦急中父子两第一次坦诚相对,恢复以往的亲情。父子两共同踏上了寻车之路……