The story of a relationship between a prisoner's mother and a soldier, revealing the possibility of a dialogue between people in opposite situations. The memory of difficult times seen from the point of view of characters who are always considered secondary. The mother is a conservative, catholic, married woman. The young soldier, newly arrived from the South, is compelled to witness a series of barbarities. He decides to accept the risk of taking a message from the imprisoned daughter to her mother, creating a highly contradictory relationship.