Since his wife suffered burns all over her body in a car accident, Doctor Robert Ledgard, a distinguished plastic surgeon, became interested in creating a new skin that could have saved her. Twelve years later, he manages to cultivate it in his own laboratory—a skin sensitive to caresses, yet a true shield against all assaults, both external and internal, to which our largest organ is subjected. To achieve this, he has used the possibilities offered by cell therapy.
Besides years of study and experimentation, Robert needed a human guinea pig, an accomplice, and no scruples. Scruples were never a problem; they were not part of his character. Marilia, the woman who cared for him from the day he was born, is his most faithful accomplice and will never fail him. And as for the human guinea pig...
Within a year, dozens of young people of both sexes disappear from their homes, in many cases by their own will. One of these young people ends up sharing the splendid mansion, El Cigarral, with Robert and Marilia. And he does so against his will...
