A girl from the interior of Venezuela is dishonored by her boyfriend. This is how she ends up as a cabaret performer, a department store employee and the lover of a wealthy bachelor.
Aquilino, better known as "Lepe", is a circus clown who returns to Caracas after several years of absence with his assistant Lepino to discover the whereabouts of his granddaughter Geraldine, the result of a relationship his daughter had with the young millionaire Juan Bértola, who died in a plane crash when Geraldine was just a baby.
The story delves into the existential problems of a forty-something executive who rediscovers his youthful drive and generosity in a young woman, only to fall and rise from a terrible moral crisis, which is cinematically resolved within a period of 24 hours.