It was selected as the fourth greatest Argentine film of all time in a poll conducted by the Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken in 2000.

The owner, Mrs. Milagros, lives there with her three daughters along with Camilo Canegato, a shy, short-statured, middle-aged, painter and portrait restorer; David Réguel, a law school student; and several others.

After residing at the house for 12 years, Camilo begins to receive perfumed, love letters from a woman named Rosaura with the 10pm mail.

They also learn of Rosaura's life with her aunt and wealthy, domineering father who is forcing her to marry a man she doesn't love.

Tragedy strikes when Rosaura is found dead in the hotel room where she and Camilo spend their first night as a married couple.

David, who followed the couple in a cab, discovers Rosaura's body and races back to the house to announce that Camilo has killed her.

They discover Rosaura's name was really Maria, a young woman Camilo met several years ago who was the niece of his laundry lady.

The final time Camilo sought Maria for her services her aunt said she had died but in reality she had been sentenced to prison for an unspecified crime.