Espinoza (
Ricardo Darin), a shy taxidermist, secretly dreams of executing the perfect robbery. On his first ever hunting trip, in the calm of the Patagonian forest, his dreams come true with one squeeze of the trigger. Espinoza accidentally kills a man who turns out to be a real criminal and inherits his scheme: the heist of an armored van carrying casino profits.
Espinoza is eager to carry out the plan, but his inexperience puts him in real danger. Worse yet, he is an epileptic. Before each seizure, he is visited by the "aura"...