"Whoever says they love others a lot and themselves a little is simply lying about one of the two: either that they love others a lot, or that they don't love themselves a lot."

"It hasn't been long since I started to understand the true value of help and the value of being selfish. Since then, I say: 'I am so, so selfish that I will try to help only because it gives me joy. I will do it because I want to and because it pleases me. I will do it for me, not for you, so you don't owe me anything.'"

A chance encounter between Jorge Bucay and an unknown woman who piques his interest leads to a long dialogue and a continuous game with abstract concepts of fear, appreciation, self-esteem, terror, value, egocentrism, selfishness, and many others, which the Argentine doctor enjoys overturning and redefining.