In a rainy night a lawyer called Gerardo Escobar gets a flat tire and Dr. Miranda stops to assist him; in appreciation, the lawyer invites the stranger to his house. Once there, hearing the two men chatting, the lawyer’s wife, Paulina Salas, recognizes the voice of the doctor who tortured her at the period of the dictatorship. The sadist doctor played Schubert's composition Death and the Maiden during the act of torture. At that moment, with a gun on her hands, the woman decides to take him capture, in order to judge him. Because she doesn’t trust in the justice that Gerardo and the supposed democracy promise her. And because she wants to hear the confession from Dr. Miranda face to face.