Antonio is a Galician businessman with excessive ambition. When he finally takes over the management of the coffin factory founded by his father, until then reluctant to hand over the baton, he makes a radical change to the business. He wants to place it at the top and sets his sights on the luxury sector. That takes him on a trip through Houston and Mexico City, where he achieves the success with which he has always been obsessed. But he barely touches it, his dreams fade in an unfair and inexplicable way, capable of making the most sensible person lose his mind.