Don Antonio Roque is basically a mentally ill person, who only seeks power, and who dies at the beggining of the story, giving way to three parallel lines: The first one takes place during the 24 hours of the burial, where we can see Federico his stepson, who turns out to be worst than Don Roque, trying to control the economic matters which givs place to situations of black humour. The second one consists of flash-backs where we can see the employees of the funeral parlour remembering the injustice they were object of when their boss lived. The last one narrates a strange place where Don Roque thinks he is still alive and will get out of their paying money.