Diego Montes (Martínez) is a matador who retired early after being gored in the arena. He now runs a bullfighting school. One of his students, Ángel (Banderas), is a passionate young man who one day rapes his teacher’s fiancée and his neighbor, Eva. Realizing his guilt, he goes to turn himself in to the police, but Eva refuses to file a complaint against him. Ángel is so tormented by his conscience that he takes the blame for four murders he did not commit. He is to be defended by María Cardenal, a female lawyer who herself kills her lovers with a hairpin during orgasm. Upon seeing her, Diego realizes he has finally found a kindred spirit…