Manuela is the toast of the capital, a beauty trapped in a wealthy but loveless marriage where she treats her own child with icy indifference. While her little Ella yearns for a single kiss, Manuela dreams only of running away with her dashing cousin, Victor. But on the night she intends to vanish forever, a terrifying silence falls over the nursery. When her daughter is faced with a sudden, deadly fever, the young mother must finally decide if her heart belongs to the phantom of a past romance or the fragile life trembling in her arms.