José Asunción Silva: poet, writer, one of the most important modernists from the first Iberoamerican generation. His projects have failed, as well as his political career and business, and he is immersed in his latest writing project, losing it during the shipwreck of a steamboat from Venezuela to Colombia. His life wanders between the re-writing of this final work and the short conversations he has with his young assistant, Inés. After finishing his manuscript, Silva ends the relationship with Inés and shoots himself in the heart, to be guided by the spirit of his younger sister on a new path towards the unknown.