Flora Tristán flees to Peru for her inheritance, but her uncle leaves her penniless by altering the will. Returning to France, she becomes a writer and advocate for workers' and women's rights. Despite romantic entanglements, she chooses to focus on her work, leaving behind her love life.

Rómulo lives every day caring for an old man he loves deeply. This affection clashes with the revulsion he feels as he becomes obsessed with his grandfather’s sick eye, planning to kill him after watching him sleep for several nights. Rómulo anxiously recounts each step of his macabre plan, until an unexpected visitor threatens to expose the crime he has just committed.