When Orlando (Francisco Reyes) enters a rooftop supper-club in Santiago at the beginning of the film, he can’t take his eyes off Marina (Daniela Vega), a striking young vocalist who’s crooning lyrics about throwing her boyfriend out with the garbage because, she sings, his love “is like yesterday’s newspaper.”
She sings that line straight to Orlando, with a little smile. She’s definitely not throwing him away … she’s moving into his apartment as soon as they celebrate her 27th birthday.
But that night, things take a terrible turn. Orlando wakes up feeling ill. Marina rushes him to the hospital, where less than half an hour later, he dies due to an aneurysm.
At that point, Marina’s ordeal is only beginning. The doctors who couldn’t save Orlando look at Marina in the harsh hospital lighting and begin to treat her as a suspect. A policeman demands to see identification and frowns at the fact that the name on her ID card is “Daniel.”