At the age of 24, our hero lives alone, is a trained journalist but works in a real estate business. He identifies himself with the shady city where he lives, with his flat full of discs and books, with the films that he watches. But he has little in common with his girlfriend, his friends, his parents, his co-workers. This situation cannot last long, and he will be forced to give an answer, after twelve days of cold weather in Porto Alegre, Brazil.