A bitter divorcee and distant father having an affair with a younger, married woman gets a call that his son has gotten into trouble at boarding school. He travels to the school, where the headmaster says his son, who beat up another student, must transfer. In a series of events that makes him increasingly bitter, he ends up making his son's girlfriend cry in a restaurant.

In Mexico, as her oldest sister searches for their kidnapped sibling, Mari spends her time in a holding cell with a young anorexic woman on the verge of death.