Paulina Escobar, a former political prisoner, is forced to confront demons from her past after her husband, Gerardo, gets a flat tire and is driven home by their distant neighbour, Dr. Miranda. Convinced that Miranda was part of the old fascist regime that tortured and raped her while blindfolded, she takes him captive in order to extract a confession. Meanwhile her husband, a lawyer, is torn between his wife, with her sombre memory and psychological repressions, and the law.
