Esteemed surgeon Alejandro Mangino is tormented by his failure to save the life of a patient in surgery. When he meets artist’s model Lucía, he immediately falls in love with her only to find her married to his friend upon his return from a trip. This second shock sets up a new emotional vortex.
During WW II, one of the hits of the London stage is a play about a murderer who strangles his victims. The actor who plays the strangler identifies so strongly with his part that when he receives a blow to the head during a bombing raid, he believes that he actually is the strangler.