Plot

When grandmother dies, a girl returns to Colombia from the US and is reunited with her half-brother. They are instantly attracted to each other and have delirious visions of ancestors who also starred in stories of incest and violence.

August 6, 1956 during the military dictatorship of Rojas Pinilla. Explosions in central Cali military convoy destroy much of the traditional buildings of the city and exposing the roots of some houses which for years had kept the secret stories of its inhabitants: Proprietary notable families of Manors sugar mills and surrounding. One such family is visited by a girl, who has lived for years in the U.S., and is half sister of our young protagonist. It is knowledge, dig into the past of the family¸ attracted to each other¸ and are immersed in a delirium in which they appear as mythical ancestors who also starred in stories of incest and violence.—Diego Alvarez

During the military dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, several trucks loaded with dynamite that went to Bogotá are exploited in the center of Cali destroying several historical buildings and houses of wealthy owners of sugar mills.

The grandmother of one of those families dies leaving his children and two grandchildren as heirs. To Cali travels a girl who is the granddaughter heiress and half sister of the boy protagonist. After the explosion, the family decided to take refuge in one of their summer homes.

Andres Alfonso and Margaret, the half-siblings seek to his great-uncle also heir who shows them various memories of the family. Both half-siblings are attracting lovingly in an incestuous relationship being slowly possesed by the spirits of their ancestors became lovers in killer and vampiric creatures to commit acts of incest and violence, thus confounding between indigenous myths of the region. After being killed by a peasant in the service of the family, lovers rise to spread even terror.