An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.

Ivan, a Belgian journalist on sabbatical in Mexico, starts following the trail of a mysterious writer called Celestino Pérez. Upon arrival in the village where Celestino lives, he turns out to be absent. Ivan is taken in by the writer's family. He soon finds himself trapped in their house, mirroring his own experience with his imagination about Celestino.