A distinguished writer declares in an interview that he should die consumed by flames, but he actually dies without any identification. An assistant coroner and a woman photographer kidnap the body to fake his suicide. The case is assigned to a judicial policeman who is oppressed by the deaths that sorround him.
Upon learning of her pregnancy, Emma, a housewife with an apparent perfect marriage, decides to leave her husband and family to start a new life with the son of the man who raped her.