A literature professor discovers a castrated man's body and reports it to the police, triggering her involvement in an investigation. The Detective informs her that the murderer is a close reader of poetry, referencing lines from Alejandra Pizarnik, which appear near other crime scenes. The killer's literary inclinations reveal a motive tied to the male body and language. As the professor receives strange notes from various performance artists, her literary skills prove crucial in deciphering the sinister messages and understanding the killer's intentions.
The Detective hands 'the Professor' a photo of the brick wall from the alley where she discovered the body. Scrawled on the wall in red nail polish are well-known lines from El Arbol de Diana, by the Argentinian writer Alejandra Pizarnik, a collection of short poems about absence, loss, and recognition.
We learn that lines from Pizarnik's poems have been found near the bodies of other murdered men all around the city, the verses smeared on walls or contained in letters found nearby.
The Detective describes the murderer as 'an obsessive aesthete who wants to send us a message about the body, the male body, and the letters of the alphabet.'
The Professor begins to receive notes slipped under her door, which are erotic, terrorizing, and confusing, and signed by different performance artists.
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