The Miguel Fortunato have just become a widower and is about to retire after a long career in the Provincia de Buenos Aires Police Dept. Six month ago he was commanded to kidnap an american writer, Robert Waterbury, for reasons never given. The abduction becomes a murder. Now the Americans have sent their own investigator, Athena Fowler, an expert in Hhuman rights and Fortunato has also been assigned to the task. . .