Cristina is a young, naive daughter of traditional rural settlers whose life is upended when she loses her virginity and becomes pregnant out of wedlock. Callously expelled from her family home by her conservative parents, she leaves the countryside for the sprawling, indifferent city. Homeless and vulnerable, she finds unexpected shelter and survival guidance when she is taken in by a local transvestite. Years later, her fragile stability shattered when she gives birth to a son diagnosed with a life-threatening heart defect requiring a prohibitively expensive surgery. Desperate to secure the funds for her child's survival, Cristina finds herself trapped between the world of prostitution and a proposition from a wealthy painter who agrees to finance the operation—under the condition that she submit to posing naked and entering his private circle. The film follows her harrowing compromise within the city's underbelly, tracking the heavy moral toll of a mother fighting against a broken system to keep her son alive.