Noel and Liza need money to pay for their son Robert hospitalization. They resort to tricking a foreigner into helping them. Liza pretends to be his girlfriend, and Noel her brother. When the child gets well, they all move in to a new house. Two soap operas on TV serve as backdrop to their daily lives. The parallelism between TV show and reality is uncanny.—anonymous

Desperately finding ways to support their sickly child, Noel and Liza welcomes a new addition to their family, Ben, a rich foreigner who is hoping to build a family of his own. Together, they play the game of deceit and make believe but the truth is far from being hidden as the daily soap operas vividly mirror what they have been hiding all along.