In the 1930s, renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros travels to Argentina to deliver a series of lectures and create a mural with a revolutionary theme, which encounters political opposition locally. Natalio Botana, a press tycoon and head of the newspaper Critica, who is also a close friend of the nation’s President, Agustín P. Justo, invites Siqueiros to contribute to the newspaper’s cultural section and to paint a mural in the basement of his estate, Villa Los Granados. Siqueiros agrees, and his wife, poet Blanca Luz Brum, joins him. Her arrival at Los Granados and subsequent affair with Botana stir the jealousy of Botana’s influential anarchist wife, Salvadora Medina Onrubia, as well as Siqueiros himself, turning the villa into a dramatic backdrop for what Siqueiros calls his work, Ejercicio Plástico.