Cuqui Jakob remembers anecdotes from her grandfather, Christofredo Jakob, an important German neurobiologist hired by the Argentine government, as chief of the laboratory of the National Hospital of Alienated, in order to modernize its mental institutions at the beginning of the 20th century. In this return to the hospital, lost photographic collections are discovered, reminiscent of the old cabinets of curiosities: stuffed animals, brain slices, mountains, explorers, hundreds of portraits of female patients. In a disruptive way, Cuqui and her daughter reappear, contradicting each other with their stories that lead the film to the mountain peaks. Mother and daughter become rivals, and this is how the discourse of scientific positivism, madness and the myth of a condor flying over the ruined archive are woven together.