Muriel and her mother leave their home for good and a freak occurrence leaves them stranded in the country. They beg a woman to let them stay and a shaky friendship develops between the two families.
Jerónimo Lynch, owner of the "Lynch Funeral Home", is about to be arrested and accepts Isabel Reyes' offer to stage his death. This leads to the setting up of an enterprise staging the death of people who wish to take on a new identity.