Not far from where they are shooting the commercial, there is a house named Araucaima, inhabited by six eccentric characters: Paul, a guardian, who patrols the property with his German Shepherd; Camilo, an impotent alcoholic pilot; a monk, with a passion for books; a black servant named Cristobal who does the daily chores; the Machiche, a mature, voluptuous woman who keeps the men in the house under her control; and Graciliano "Don Graci", the pampered and corrupt owner of the house.

Camilo and the monk run the accounting of the property; Cristobal sells the production of the farm in the nearby town and buys provisions; the guardian watches the property; Don Graciliano takes long baths outdoors, and Machiche has sex with Cristobal and the guardian, who hate each other.

From then on, Machiche befriends Angela, they share more time together and join Don Graci on his long baths outdoors.

Machiche performs for Angela a theatrical scene and the two women begin a lesbian affair.

Machiche really likes only men and tells Angela that Cristobal slept with her by orders of Don Graci.

Angry, Don Graci gives orders to bury Camilo and Machiche and cremate Angela's body in the oven.

He reads the four rules at the entrance of the mansion of Araucaima: If you enter this house, do not leave.

'La Mansión de Araucaima' is a story written by Álvaro Mutis published in 1973, as part of a bet with his friend the director Luis Buñuel in which the latter dismissed the possibility of capturing the Gothic genre in the Latin American tropics.

[2] Years later, the Cinematic Development Company (FOCINE) handed the project over to Carlos Mayolo after his success with his film Carne de tu carne, and together with his friend and colleague Luis Ospina, they adapted the story giving it the characteristic essence of Buñuel; the confrontation between the real world and one of fantasy, the confinement as a metaphor for class and sex as the motor of the actions of the characters.

Mayolo hired Vicky Hernández, Adriana Herrán and David Guerrero, with whom he had worked in Carne de tu carne, adding Luis Fernando Montoya and Alejandro Buenaventura, two renowned Colombian actors.

And finally he hired José Lewgoy and Antonio Sampaio, two renowned Brazilian actors.