His sexual initiation plunges shy adolescent Joaquín into confusion. The laws governing this well-to-do bourgeois life don´t offer him the answers to what he is feeling. The attitude of this father, Luis Felipe an unobliging male chauvinist patriarch who tries to beat the secrets of virility into him, confuses Joaquín even more; while the threadbare pieties of his mother, Maricucha, only deepens his sense of guilt.