Eric, a ten-year-old boy, finds himself living overnight with Gabriel, his father whom he barely knows. Seeing that the man is having a hard time building a relationship with his son and staying afloat financially, Maria Isabel, the upper-class woman Gabriel works for as a carpenter, decides to take the boy under her wing.
Twenty years ago Beatriz saved the life of a stranger. Nostalgic and questioning the futility of her life, she travels and meets Cota, the man she once saved. As in a nightmare, she discovers that he is now a decaying clown who goes from town to town leaving behind him a trail of laughter and death.
