Daniel Casares is a middle-aged journalist who is forced to take charge of the events section of the newspaper where he works. After wing appearance of two bodies in similar circumstances decides to start an investigation that, little by little, you will be introduced into the dangerous world of snuff films.

A work of Valle-Inclán, the story takes place in Galicia in the early twentieth century. To escape poverty, the wife of a sacristan uses a hydrocephalic child as a sideshow attraction. This causes a confrontation with her sister-in-law.