The life of a successful television man led by Particio Podestá is cut short when, leaving a highway at a wrong turn, he is assaulted by a hooded man who, upon recognizing him, instead of robbing him, mercilessly vexes him. Since then, that sinisterly smiling mask has not let him live in peace and a television gossip driver who rummages in the folds of his life and seems to discover his secret obsesses him.