Taking a breather from the crisis of her marriage, a surgeon named Celina visits the country house of an old friend who she hasn't seen since their university days. When she gets there, she realizes that something is going on with Paula, her friend's step daughter. Soon she learns that Paula attempted suicide, but Celina is in no shape to help anyone, because she is fleeing a dark secret of her own and has come to the worst place of all possible places to save herself. In the limbo of this hellish little town, her ghosts are reborn, infecting everyone around her...

Con la excusa de una crisis matrimonial, la cirujana Celina se toma unos días en la casa de campo de una vieja amiga a la que no ve desde sus días de estudiante. Allí advierte que algo parece suceder con Paula, la hijastra de su amiga, que brilla por su ausencia. Dos chicas, la mística Nené y la cínica María, acosan a Celina no sólo con preguntas sobre Paula sino tratando de integrarla a su grupo disfuncional. En el limbo de ese pueblo infernal, sus fantasmas no harán sino resurgir y contagiarse con los de las demás.