In Spain, a young girl named Laura Garca Rodrguez is adopted from an orphanage. 30 years later, adult Laura returns to the closed orphanage, accompanied by her husband, Carlos Snchez Rivera, and their seven-year-old son, Simn. She plans to reopen the orphanage as a facility for disabled children. Simn claims to have befriended a boy named Toms, and draws pictures of him as a child wearing a sack mask. Social worker Benigna Escobedo visits the house to inquire after Simn, and it is revealed that Laura and Carlos adopted Simn and that he is HIV positive. Incensed at Benigna's intrusion, Laura asks her to leave. Later that night, Laura finds Benigna in the orphanage's coal shed, but Benigna flees the scene. Later, Simn teaches Laura a game which grants its winner a wish. Clues lead the two to Simn's adoption file. Simn becomes angry, and says that his new friend told him that Laura is not his biological mother and that he is going to die soon.