Buenos Aires, 1985. It's the first anniversary of the death of Alexis Carpenter, the unstable supermodel who died tragically when she was set on fire while closing a runaway show. Lucia L'uccello - Editor-in-Chief of the most important magazine in Buenos Aires - chooses supermodels Eva Lantier and Irene del Lago to honor Alexis on the cover of the anniversary issues dedicated to the famous model. The night before the photo shoot, Alexis's original dresses that were going to be used by the models are stolen. From that moment, members of the important fashion magazine and the agency begin to disappear, one by one, at the hands of a stealthy, sinister female silhouette in a long black leather raincoat. Is someone seeking revenge? Or has Alexis returned from the grave?
After their humble dwelling is destroyed by a fire, a marginalized family occupies an abandoned house. From there, they dig a hole to the vault of a neighboring bank.
It describes the dilemma of a director in front of his characters and the search for a fetish actor who ends up being his great love. As if it were a documentary, the director remembers moments of his life and fragments of the filming of his film. That film tells the story of a poet who comes from the 19th century and contemplates the pain of the 20th century. There are tributes to her ancestors, especially her Piedmontese grandmother and her contemporary idols: actress Bárbara Mugica and Luchino Visconti.
Returning to Puerto Rico after living abroad for a long time, Paco, out of work, meets successful Nicolás, an old friend from his college years. Nicolás invites him to his house, where Paco meets a woman from his past.
A group of boys decides to rob a hotel accommodation for seeking advice which an old offender. In parallel, we see different couples as they arrive at the same hotel and that there be at the time of the assault.
Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of liquor and a meditated revenge; a heart that refuses to stop beating.