At a New Years Eve party, a dead woman turns up alive again, after passing through a mysterious post-mortem way station located on another planet, and much to the disbelief of her old flame, who interprets the nights events with the help of his reading of Kafka. A priest is sent by the Vatican to investigate a strange development in the American cattle market a breed of cows identical in all physical respects to human women. A man leaves his wife and flees to the north of Spain, where he meets a sickly woman in an empty caf, introduces himself as Jorge Walser, and makes plans with her to disappear. Aboard a trans-atlantic cruise, a