
Amid the aroma of the sea & the Galician pines a young saxophonist is found dead in his swanky flat overlooking the beach. The murder seems to have taken place after a sexual encounter with a lover: there are two glasses filled with gin in the living room & the dead man Luis Reigosa is tied by the wrists to the headboard of the bed. But the way he was killed makes it impossible to obtain any more clues about his activities that night: his stomach groin & thighs are horribly burned & his genitals look hideously like a toasted cashew. The unusually cold-blooded & cruel murder is assigned to Leo Caldas a disheartened police inspector still searching for his place in the world. The case unfolds between inviting nights at the jazz clubs & the tense affected atmosphere of afluent Vigo.