Tere Ortiz

Midnight. A young couple is surprised in their car by a strange prowler when they are about to spend an intimate amorous moment. They are savagely murdered. The next morning horrible events begin to take place in a quiet neighborhood: a three year old boy disappears, a man's head is split open with a stone, a woman is cut open with a kitchen knife, a girl is decapitated... All the events point to the fact that Simon Rosales, a dangerous psychopath, had escaped the night before from the asylum where he was confined. When the corpses begin to pile up, the police start looking for the psychopath who is like a shadow, like a silhouette in the dark.

Matilde is a nun convinced that faith moves mountains. She secretly begins a mystic fasting to end what she considers to be the second great flood. Elena is a thin and fashion-conscious woman ashamed of her daughter's chubbiness. She's willing to do the impossible to make her daughter Linda thin so Linda will look like a little princess on the day she receives her first communion. At the same time Elena's husband Gustavo - a professor of architecture - cannot cope with his wife's bones poking him during intimate moments so he turns his attention to a buxom female student with a hearty appetite.