In the middle of the crisis in Venezuela, Roque Rincón, a talented and experienced Shakespearean actor with a terrible crack addiction, has spent years preparing to represent Hamlet, but at the last minute, his producer Leónidas Sandoval emigrated from the country and left, the project it collapses and so does Roque. Unhinged by drug abuse, Roque murders his landlady, Cecilia Contreras and his daughter Isabel, it is a perfect crime without witnesses. From that moment on, guilt torments him and makes him live a hell of madness, the ghosts of the victims haunt Roque while he feigns innocence in front of his sister Diana, his mother Alejandra and his girlfriend Sonia. Finally, Roque succumbs to his dead, who come to take him away.