Summer ’30s. Province of Buenos Aires. Mateo, an ex-convict anarchist, travels across the Pampas in an old van full of stolen chickens with the illusion of meeting El Rey, the rooster that will lead them to victory in a cock-fight..
In a chance encounter with Aurelia and Carmelo, two brothers in search of their father, Mateo decides to accompany them on an aimless trip to the South.