The man stops to buy oranges in town. He intends to buy them for his daughter, hoping her to appease her after all that’s happened with him and her mother. He doesn’t know what his kids know, only that he moved out and is no longer living with their mother. He hopes to ask their mother for forgiveness and see her later today. Instead of buying oranges from the same old lady, however, he only sees a male seller. He asks the seller for six oranges and, naturally, is coaxed into buying six carnations as well.

The seller reminds the man of an encounter he had at a cosmetics store in a nearby mall. There, he stumbles upon a male clerk whom he waits for to get off of work and subsequently takes to the movie. While watching the movie—a comedy—the clerk pleasures the man with his hands, after which they continue to see each other in secret, without the man’s wife knowing. One day, the man and the clerk talk, after which the clerk says he isn’t trying to ruin the man’s life.

The man goes up to his wife’s house, taking only the oranges but not the flowers. He thinks about how she, too, left the marriage briefly to be with another man, only to come back later. At her house’s doorstep, the wife tells the man to go pick up their son at a veteran’s hall where he and others are rehearsing for a quinceanera.

Inside the veteran’s hall, the man sits on a bench and watches the kids go by. He sees two girls walking past him, talking about a boy whom they think is cute. The man wonders if they’re talking about his son. One of the girls then wishes that the boy would talk to him again, and the other girl says that he’s done with her. Eventually, the boy meets the man. He tells him that he’s actually going to hang out with his friends, but the man insists, per his wife’s request, that they go home together.

As the man and the boy talk, the man sees the two girls staring at them, confirming to him that they were talking about the boy all along. They then go to the car, and the boy asks the man about the carnations. The man says that they were supposed to be for his mother. The boy asks if he’s moving back home. The man says he doesn’t know, after which he encourages his son to give the carnations to his supposed girlfriend back there. He goes out of the car and does.

The man, sitting in the car, thinks back to the clerk whom he briefly fell in love with. He thinks about how it’s hard to fall in love with too many obligations. He wonders how his life could have been different if he was braver than he was.