Ernesto, a wealthy businessman, rents out the grounds of his splendid mansion to a soap opera production while he is out of town. However, his bored wife, Ana, is not pleased with Ernesto’s decision and professes disgust at the ‘vulgarity’ of the popular soap.

In her lonely solitude, she begins to follow the goings on and soon becomes just as involved as her two maids. When she is accidentally taken for an actress, she will be casting for a plum role.

As the set gradually becomes dominated by gossip, intrigue and blackmail, the boundary between the real world and the make-believe soap opera world begins to blur. Ana has to solve the situation before her husband comes back.