Faced with the hardships of a tenant, landlord Don Fulberto insists on collecting rent in kind, giving rise to a drama of interests and blackmail. In another story, the alcoholic mother of a young prostitute wants to lure a beardless boy into the trade. Both stories reflect the manipulative desire of adults over young people. A self-serving desire that ignores the dark forces it unleashes.

Estela and Pilar become friends when they enter an acting school. They live together and dedicate themselves to their learning process under the premise: "Acting in life is called play." Estela does not pay much attention to Pilar's envy towards her classmate Dora. But when the school principal assigns Dora the lead role in a play, Estela joins her friend's cause.

Chelo is an architect, withdrawing from her social life because of realistic dreams she's having of a romance with a strange man. She's convinced the man is real, out there, destined to be with her. She reports a rape to the police, describing the man of her dreams to a sketch artist. The police find a suspect: he's Marcos, a physician. Chelo tells the police this is not the man who raped her, but now she has Marcos in her sights. Her plan for him to fall in love with her is complicated by his having a fiancée. What can Chelo do? Meanwhile, Marcos has violent dreams about an unfamiliar woman. Chronologies overlap, glass breaks. Can a mind lie to itself?