After arriving home to find her husband completely mad, young literary editor Helga Pato is forced to put him into a psychiatric clinic in the country’s north. On the return train journey, a stranger suddenly asks her to help pass the time: “Would you like me to tell you about my life?” He is Ángel Sanagustín, a psychiatrist who works in the same clinic. He is investigating the worst clinical case he has ever come across: Martín Urales de Úbeda, an extremely dangerous paranoid, obsessed with garbage and other stuff. After finishing Martínʼs story, Ángel bids farewell to Helga and disappears, but he has left behind a file full of stories. Helga is fascinated and decides to publish them. With this objective in mind, Helga searches for Ángel. But she mistakes narrators with authors, and authors with characters...