Edgardo is a wealthy intellectual who prepares for dinner surrounded by books and re-reading a writing about morality, truth and freedom. The arrival of Jessica, who breaks into his house and turns him into a hostage, will rip him out of the theories and letters. She hides something that escapes his understanding but in which, gratuitously and irreversibly he is involved. This violent, unpredictable and mysterious young woman forces him to question all his reflections.