Yo fumo para olvidar que tú bebes

End of the eighties. Max Lomas, handsome and sentimental, cultured and disbelieving, lives between Madrid and San Sebastián, where he works as a private bodyguard for a teacher threatened by the terrorist group ETA. While in the capital Max falls in love with Elsa Arroyo as soon as he sees her, in the Basque Country his ambitious and temperamental colleague García begins to consider which side of the line that separates crime from the law should be placed. And what is worse, to also take an interest in Elsa...