It tells the story of Sebastián Toledo, a plastic surgeon belonging to one of the wealthiest and most important families of the 1980s, who, one day, is kidnapped, tortured and cruelly murdered. 20 years later, his son, raised in Madrid, now a criminal lawyer, returns to Maracaibo, discovering among the memories of his recently deceased mother, indications that the death of his father hides the most sordid secret of his family.