Rosa works in a bar and is going to marry her high school boyfriend. Meeting Iván and falling in love with him changes her plans and her life. Together they set up a bar but Iván's problems with gambling end up turning Rosa into a madam, who rents her house to prostitutes. The situation however is far from being at its lowest point ... passion turns balanced and sensible people into beings who behave in an irrational and even harmful way towards themselves.