Johnny Espiritu is an alcoholic writer who decides to take one last, mindless walk around town before he is to commit suicide. On this walk and in the depths of his alcoholism, loneliness and suicidal ideation, he becomes infatuated with Soledad, a young woman who takes an interest in him. Responding to the human instinct of survival, he falls in love and finds that the trenches of infatuation are as deep as the trenches of his own mind.