According to Jewish belief, from the moment a Jew is born, he or she is accompanied by two angels: the angel of light and the angel of darkness. With the passing of Moishe (75), his family and friends gather to sit shivah, the 7-day Jewish mourning ritual. The spirit angels Aleph and Bet, divine accountants, watch over the mourners actions and what´s been said about the deceased to calculate which angel will accompany Moishe´s soul to the afterlife.

The odds are against Moishe from the beginning. Family dysfunction aside, Moishe´s friends are attending for their own motives. And to make matters worse, while performing his duties, a Chevreman, who is a member of the Chevra Kadisha (sacred funeral society) is milking the family for all they're worth, charging for kosher food, slippers and other shivah goods.

Emotionally unstable and obsessed with staying young, Moishe´s daughter Esther falls apart, crying over a lost tooth and announcing that she is going to have plastic surgery to fix her entire body immediately after the shivah. Meanwhile, Moishe´s son, Ricardo, is attempting to convince a doctor attending the shivah to give his girlfriend an abortion, while his wandering eye leads him to his dead father's lover, Julia Palafox, the notorious Catholic mistress for whom Moishe left his family many years earlier.

Also present are Moishe´s grandchildren, Galia (23) Esther´s daughter, a student at NYU, and her cousin Nicolás (28), a yeshivah student who lives in Israel, hiding from Mexican justice. They can't ignore their mutual attraction exacerbated by their confinement and motivated by the polarity of their values. They are surprised by the passion which leaves behind feelings of guilt for Nicolás, and satisfies Galia´s love of defiance.

Which angel will win the battle for Moishe´s soul? If the shivah reveals anything, it's that Moishe´s family and friends loved him with all his flaws and mystery- and most of all his spirit.