It's Christmastide in Vienna, but Romanian half-brothers Ion and Andrei have little time for festivity as they chase debts and tie up loose ends on the eve of their departure from the city.
In a rural village in the wetlands, a town crier brings the news of the dead following a storm. When Abraham finds out the one of them was his friend Ciro, he embarks on a journey to fulfill a promise that will take him to the shade of the Guacarí tree.
It is the end of the 1960s and Jérôme has failed his high school exams. His best friend, David, has passed them and is getting ready to leave town, maybe forever. Summer is just beginning but their friendship seems doomed to end.