A married man has a brief affair, then goes back to his wife and children. His jilted mistress, believing that if he had no more family he'd come back to her, sets fire to his house, hoping to kill them. The man, unsuccessfully trying to rescue them, is horribly burned. After he undergoes an operation to reconstruct his face, he begins to plot his revenge against his former mistress.

Vance Pierson, un ingeniero inglés, llega a Galicia para poner en marcha una presa. Vance lleva una vida familiar normal, pero cuando conoce a Laura, una mujer egoísta y sin escrúpulos, cae en el adulterio. Como la mujer y la hija de Vance suponen un estorbo, Laura incendia su casa con ellas dentro. Cuando Vance averigua que la causante de la tragedia es su amante, sólo vivirá para vengarse. (FILMAFFINITY)