The plot is intertwined with the relationship between man, the environment, personal sustenance and the search for the meaning of life.
Edward, a young engineer, ambitious and imprisoned by the need to perform professionally, suffers an accident caused by the hectic life he led.
Forced to stay in the mobile for a few months, he becomes anguished, discouraged and questions himself: Would the material aspect be the ultimate goal?
The idea of the transience of life, which the accident had brought him; also leading him to conclude that up to that date his life had been almost only study and work, nothing more.