After a love breakup that forces her to return to the department where she grew up, the protagonist recalls the time when her mother disappeared, leaving her two children living a provisional life. To distract herself from loneliness and lack of love, Veronica embarks on the unexpected project of a Zen exercise. Over the months, she will have to order the file of an Argentinian writer exiled in Mexico, Marisa Chubut, to discover that she used to cut people out of the photographs and save the empty landscapes, and also that she wrote the same book dozens of times during her life. The son of Chubut gives her a telescope with which she will observe the urban landscape in search of secrets.