1940年，一辆放映车驶入卡斯蒂利亚高原的某个村子，孩子们马上围拢了上去。放映的电影是《科学怪人》，座位上有女童安娜（Ana Torrent 饰）和她的小姐姐伊莎贝尔（Isabel Tellería 饰）。放映室外，父亲痴迷于自己的新蜂房，他掏出怀表，结束了今天的工作。母亲正在写一封信，尽管对方收到信的可能渺茫，母亲在信纸上倾诉思念之情，在火车站将信投递。安娜久久不能忘记科学怪人，伊莎贝尔向她虚构出荒原上一座孤立的砖房是怪人的出没之地。安娜惊慌逃开，但从此不时返回砖房查看。伊莎贝尔似乎洞悉了某种秘密，她装死、跳过火堆，诸如此类。不久一名受伤军人躲进砖房被安娜发现，当晚军人中枪死亡。父亲来到村公所拿走军人的物品，包括一只怀表。安娜独自一个跑出村子，夜里她在湖边遇到了科学怪人……
　　本片获1973年圣塞巴斯蒂安国际电影节金贝壳奖等多项褒奖。

London. Jarvis Dolan is a charismatic host of a radio show named "The Grim Reality", about news and actuality. Loudmouth, fun and ruthless in his speeches and ments, Jarvis is the most important radio star of the moment, entertaining the audience throughout the early morning with his intelligent programs on hot topics. Previous the job, Dolan is required by his boss Norman Burgess to have a brief talk about the fate of the program by the recent poor ratings, that reporting Dolan to accept to his former partner, Andrew Wilde, as co-host, in an attempt to improvement the show. Going they two to the studio, Wilde meets Dolan's assistants, Anthony and Claire, who work making the show behind the micros. But when Dolan tries to start the program while he waits for Wilde, who had to go out a little before to back more later, he finds suddenly trapped by the circumstances: two masked men have assaulted the radio station at gunpoint and kidnapped Anthony and Claire, making him to keep the ...