Bernard, an author in a personal and imaginative crisis, makes a decision to a time-out in a resort where he had stayed the previous year. The owners, old Enrico as well as his little girl Irma, hide a surly perspective, and also the citizens seem to be suppressed by an unspeakable mystery. Bernard is searching for Tilde, an attractive chambermaid whom he privately loved, yet is stunned to find out that the woman killed herself. Nevertheless, a hunchbacked professional photographer recommends she was murdered by Enrico, her enthusiast, because she was expectant and did not wish to abort. At the same time, Mario, Enrico's hostile kid, returns from honeymoon with his relatively unhappy spouse Adriana. The lady, that is maintained like a detainee in her space, attempts to get in touch with Bernard, yet is soon located dead too. In a significantly anxious atmosphere there are two even more murders before the offender is revealed ...