A woman who works as employee in a fashion store has to care for her ill mother. At the same time she falls in love with a bohemian man.
Spain, late 19th century. Judge Javier Zarco finds in a cemetery a skull pierced by a nail and suspects that a murder has been committed.
Ernesto and Marta, a couple of newlyweds who have serious financial problems, are visited by a neighbor asking them to keep a large sum of money at home until she goes to the bank the next day.