A seaside town in the north. A group of friends linked by the same fate meets daily at the local bar. Three years ago they lost their jobs during mass layoffs at the local shipyard. They constantly try to maintain their balance on a tightrope of occasional earnings, wasting time in the unemployment office’s long lines while waiting for their Mondays in the Sun. The wait, however, seems all too hopeless. They suspect that the road to everyday survival lies in another direction, but out of professional pride and principal some refuse the solution that two of them have already chosen. With his severance pay, Rico opened the bar where they meet, and Reina found a job as a night watchmen at a construction site. Located next to a stadium, the site provides his friends with a free vantage point for watching Sunday afternoon soccer games, although the fact that he has a job isolates him somewhat from the others. For Santa, José, Lino and Amador, who felt at home on the docks, the loss of work means losing their lifestyle, the sense of their lives, and their relationships. The single Santa now dreams of emigrating to the antipodes, José is dealing with a marriage crisis, and the oldest, lonely Amador, is drinking his life away at the others’ expense. Only Lino still tries to change his lot, dressing in a clean shirt and a borrowed suit every day….