Turned out of the university,Professor Fermín Escartíndecide s to become a privatedetective. His first casecomes to him t hrough anex-school friend, GumersindoLlamazares, now a brill iantexecutive in an insurancecompany. Escartín has tofi nd the famous impresarioSerafín Galindo, an eccentricmillion aire, who has disappeared.