A man wakes in a native village, unable to recall how he got there. As he's aided back to health through rest and the topless magic of a young girl, the village soon comes under attack by a helicopter which drives the man to flee into the jungle.

Giacomo is a former football player in a small town with a big lake, reader of detective stories. His meeting with Sara, suspect in the murder of her husband, a wealthy property owner, suddenly changes his life to commit murder, to madness.