Juana, a young biology student, takes a trip to Tierra del Fuego to work at the Acatushún Museum, located in Bahía Haberton, in the conservation of cetacean remains. Her boyfriend Mariano, a naturalist, goes to the Parque Provincial La Araucaria, in Misiones, to work with the vinous parrot. The separation and a couple of misunderstandings affect their relationship. She, young and inexperienced, but with an eagerness to learn, will witness events bordering on magical realism, and will also be the recipient of the stories of each of the characters she will meet on her journey. With a meticulous narrative voice, Julieta Antonelli makes a survey of the human condition. Beings that escape from some unhappy story, go into the inhospitable zone of the end of the world to look for a destiny that is denied to them. Joan will live along with all of them wonderful and cruel days that will change her for the rest of her life.