A man has a street accident with his car in his way to Buenos Aires. While he waits for his car repairing, this business man learns that everybody in the little town where he's stuck seem to know about his wife Mónica. He knows little about her past, but the reactions of the townsfolk towards him range from laughing at his back to practically don't want him around. He won't leave the town until he could learn more about the secret past of his wife. But the former life of the young beautiful mother of his daughter involves a turbulent story.

Cuando se dirigía a Buenos Aires para reunirse con su esposa Mónica, Juan Valdés sufre un accidente que le obliga a permanecer unas horas en un pueblo. Entonces descubre, casualmente, que su mujer vivió allí y que se vio involucrada en un proceso judicial por la muerte de su padre. Pero la versión que los vecinos le dan sobre Mónica le parece demasiado tendenciosa y malévola, por lo que decide averiguar la verdad por su cuenta.