Gael García Bernal stars as Eligio, a charismatic (and philandering) Mexican actor who wakes up one morning to find that his wife Susana (Verónica Echegui) has left him without word or warning. Eventually he discovers that she is at a writers’ workshop in Iowa and boards a plane from Mexico City to pursue her. A fish out of water in a Midwestern winter, Eligio is shocked to find Susana in another relationship and is determined to win her back.