Monica is a social worker from Mexico City, whose child is suffering from a degenerative illness in his eyes. Having exhausted all other options, a corneal transplant is her only hope. Overwhelmed by the ineffectiveness of the health system, she decides on an extreme solution.

Mexican provocateur Michel Franco and his sister Victoria co-direct this frank portrait of economic desperation and its corrupting power. Unvarnished images and subdued performances lend a gripping sense of realism to a haunting story that finds the line between good and evil irrevocably blurred.