Hugo, a failed writer in 1950’s Madrid; (he is always being told that his stories aren’t interesting because they lack credibility). He is in a relationship with Ivón, a beautiful choir girl of a Variety Theatre who only wants to leave work, get married and live with no financial worries.
Hugo has a son, Carlos, who’s almost the same age as Ivón, and not only wants to get a sizable inheritance from his father, but also makes the attractive choir girl fall in love with him.
However, a mystery is hanging over Hugo’s young, rich, attractive son, a mystery which we will only find out about at the end, when Carlos forces his father to choose a tragic, desperate solution for which, paradoxically, he cannot be blamed.
Hugo, un escritor fracasado en el Madrid de los 50 (le dicen, una y otra vez, que sus historias no interesan por falta de credibilidad), mantiene relaciones con Ivón, joven y bella chica de coro de una Compañía de Revistas, obsesionada con dejar de trabajar, casarse y vivir sin agobios económicos.
Hugo tiene un hijo, Carlos, casi de la edad de Ivón, quien, además de arrebatar a su padre una cuantiosa herencia, termina por enamorar a la hermosa vicetiple.
Sin embargo, un misterio se cierne sobre el joven, rico y atractivo hijo de Hugo, misterio que únicamente conoceremos al final, cuando Carlos obligue a su padre a tomar una trágica y desesperada solución, de la que, paradójicamente, nadie podrá culparlo.