Underground and gay writer Carlos Correas left a number of questions after his suicide. A few manuscripts, a diary, letters, and the traumatic screen version of a short story promise to be the parts of a puzzle that pieces together the experience of an intellectual life painfully argentinian.

Eddie Dodd is a burnt out former civil rights lawyer who now specializes in defending drug dealers. Roger Baron, newly graduated from law school, has followed Eddie's great cases and now wants to learn at his feet. With Roger's idealistic prodding, Eddie reluctantly takes on a case of a young Korean man who, according to his mother, has been in jail for eight years for a murder he didn't commit.