An solitary old wolf, a man who has retired to the coast, receives a visit from his grandson. But soon after his arrival other, nightmarish visitors appear: three criminals on the run, three young, cruel wolves from a different pack, instal themselves in the house and take the two hostage. The intruders, two men and a woman, sure of their strength and bragging of their power to use it, subject their prisoners to humiliating cruelties, establishing a reign of arbitrariness, chaos and mutual rivalry, without understanding how they have got to that point, much less where it will lead. In this heartrending scene, the relative calm of the old wolf and the childish common sense of the cub search for ways to free themselves, trying to keep a cool head in the face of their captors' excesses.