A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.

Dr. Brogan receives Helena as a patient, who has fallen into a vegetative state after witnessing the horrendous murders of three of his companions. Brogan, will soon realize that Helena is not a normal patient, when the young woman begins to transmit painful and violent images of the events.

Diego Lamote, a former star player whose injury leaves him off the field, returns to the country and seeks to make a living as a representative. He finds out that in the youth team of the Acassuso Club, where he began his football career, there is a boy who has the conditions of Un Crack and who is still in charge as coach Francisco, who was his mentor, with whom he has a past to resolve. Despite his doubts, Lamote goes to the Club in search of the Crack and to confront Francisco and his past, but Francisco's destiny will not let it be resolved without making them both pay for it.