Pedro, a foreign worker in Switzerland, learns that his mother is in hospital in Spain. Isolated from the world on his employer’s farm, he is asked to take one of the cows to slaughter before leaving for his country. Waiting for news from Spain, he arrives late at the slaughterhouse. At this same time, his brother calls to tell him that his mother has died. His world collapses and, still with the cow, he begins a wandering in which he will manage to accept his loss.

Pedro, trabajador extranjero en Suiza, se entera de que su madre está en el hospital en España. Aislado del mundo en la granja de su patrón, le piden que lleve una de las vacas a sacrificar antes de volver a su país. Esperando noticias de España, llega tarde al matadero, ya cerrado.