After escaping a brutal attack, Rafael, a young miner, loses his sense in the forest where he is found by two sisters, Dolores and Teresa.
Vicente, the town gravedigger, decides to exhume the body of the recently deceased Hortensia to strip her of her wedding ring, without imagining what the result of his ambition could cause.
A bunch of unknown actors create a TV show about themselves. Taking on the inevitable collapse and defeat of their show in the summer of a new era.