Jose, a journalist and radio broadcaster, runs a daily program under the title 'Alone in the wee hours' ('Solos en la madrugada'), which has garnered a huge national audience as a satirical chronicle of Spanish society in the democratic transition of the late 1970s. Married and separated from Elena, Jose has two children, whom he only sees from time to time. Then he meets Maite, younger than him, outgoing and more open-minded than he wants. The emotional shock caused by his relationship with these two women will change his pessimistic view of life.

En el programa nocturno "Solos en la madrugada", un locutor de radio, que siente que la transición de la dictadura a la democracia ha traicionado sus sueños de cambio político, hace crónicas corrosivas y derrotistas de la sociedad española de finales de los años 70.