Olga rents out a room to a man whose wife has been admitted to a hospital nearby. However, the man has a nine-year-old son he has been sneaking into the room, which leads to Olga’s carefully controlled world shifting as their lives become intertwined.

A Mexico City in twinkling repose forms the backdrop to this disarmingly sweet tale of intergenerational friendship, in which wry humor overcomes sullen alienation. Dodging overwrought sentiment with droll, humanist restraint, this soulful film hums with irrepressible joie de vivre.