Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious abductions, she is herself abducted and taken into police custody.

Two men compete for the love of a woman with an unexpected destiny.

Vicente Duarte commits his first crime. The victim is a young, attractive woman whom the criminal had never met. From his initial foray into the world of crime, Duarte feels a kind of inner serenity, which will drive him to continue committing more crimes.