Felipe visits Donceles 815 and is guided through a dark colonial mansion to meet an elderly widow.

Consuelo asks Felipe to edit and publish her late husband's memoirs while living in the house.

Felipe sees the beautiful green-eyed Aura for the first time and immediately agrees to take the job.

Felipe reads the first batch of the General's memoirs, learning the man served under Maximilian I before exile.

Felipe climbs the furniture and looks through the skylight, seeing seven cats writhing in flames below.

Felipe eats dinner with Aura at a table set for four people, unable to stop staring at her.

A woman enters Felipe's bed at night, they make love, and she calls him husband before leaving at daybreak.

The General's second batch of memoirs describes his first encounter with the young green-eyed Consuelo.

Felipe pushes open Consuelo's door and sees her embracing, biting, and dancing with a military jacket.

Felipe concludes that Consuelo created Aura to perpetuate the illusion of her own lost youth.

Felipe finds Aura beheading a kid in the kitchen while Consuelo simultaneously performs a ritual in her room.

Aura asks Felipe to meet her in Consuelo's bedroom that evening while the old woman is away.

Felipe examines old photographs and finds a woman identified as Consuelo who looks identical to Aura.

While studying the photographs, Felipe begins recognizing his own features in the face of the deceased General.

A moonbeam reveals Felipe has been embracing the cadaverous Consuelo; he realizes he loves her and she promises to bring Aura back.

Aura follows Felipe Montero, a young historian who answers a mysterious advertisement and moves into a dark colonial mansion to edit the memoirs of a dead general. Once inside, he is seduced by Aura, the widow's beautiful niece, and begins losing his grip on time and identity. Through the General's memoirs, Felipe learns about the man's exile to Paris and his passionate love for a young woman named Consuelo. Strange events accumulate — burning cats, mirrored behavior between Aura and the widow, and a secret late-night visit — until the horror fully surfaces in the final chapter. Old photographs reveal that Aura and the General's young wife are the same person, and that Felipe himself bears a striking resemblance to the General. The story ends with Felipe making love to the old widow in the dark, discovering that Consuelo has drawn him into a timeless repetition of the past.

The headline events of Felipe's descent into Consuelo's trap.

Felipe ignores the job advertisement on the first day, then returns to the café and decides to investigate.

Aura leads Felipe upstairs to a light-filled attic room with a large skylight and antique furniture.

Felipe examines his own features for the first time in the bedroom mirror.

Felipe passes his room key to Aura at dinner and she does not withdraw her hand.

Felipe visits Consuelo after dinner and finds her kneeling in fervent prayer before a cluster of religious images.

Consuelo gives Felipe the first bundle of papers and a key to the chest containing more documents.

Felipe hears a faint mewling of cats during his second evening in the house but cannot find the source.

Felipe decides to slow his work pace and prolong the assignment to earn 12,000 pesos for his own research.

Felipe explores Aura's room and finds it completely bare except for a single enormous black Christ.

Felipe wakes the morning after his first night with the woman who called him husband, feeling drained and depleted.

Felipe finds a small rag doll hidden beneath his napkin at the solitary dinner table.

Using matches for light, Felipe explores the covered patio garden and discovers poisonous plants including nightshade and belladonna.

Aura appears to Felipe wearing a green robe, looking not like a girl but a woman of forty.

Aura washes Felipe's feet, and the two slowly undress each other and begin dancing together.

After making love, Felipe wakes to find Aura and Consuelo moving in perfect unison before exiting through a connecting door.

These events trace the textures and details of Felipe's daily experience inside the widow's house, from his arrival through the final night. We see him settle into the strange domestic rhythms of the household — eating at a four-person table, working slowly through papers, and searching for ways to connect with Aura. Small unsettling details accumulate: mewling cats, an empty room with a black Christ, a rag doll beneath his napkin, and poisonous plants growing in the dark garden. Aura's transformation on their second meeting — appearing older, harder, and stranger — deepens the sense of unreality surrounding her. The pool ends with the eerie image of both women moving in perfect synchrony after Felipe's second night with Aura, confirming the supernatural bond between them.

The domestic details and accumulating strangeness of life inside the mansion.

Felipe sees the job advertisement at his regular café but dismisses it and goes to work as usual.

Felipe navigates the interior of the dark mansion by touch and sound, unable to rely on his sight.

Felipe asks Consuelo directly about the burning cats he witnessed; she denies that any side garden exists.

Consuelo joins Felipe and Aura for lunch, talking constantly while Aura sits silent and mirrors her every movement.

Felipe begins fantasizing about rescuing Aura from the dark house and casting himself as her savior.

Felipe dreams of cadaverous, fleshless hands reaching toward him through the darkness.

The General's memoirs describe Consuelo torturing a cat as a ritual sacrifice intended to preserve their love.

After seeing both women skinning animals simultaneously, Felipe retreats in shock and dreams of Consuelo's face merging with Aura's.

Felipe wakes from his stupor and realizes he is performing his morning routine in entirely the wrong order.

Aura breaks a communion wafer in half and offers Felipe a piece; he eats it and vows to love her even in old age.

The General's final memoirs describe Consuelo's growing obsession with herbs and narcotics to recreate her lost youth.

Felipe reads the last line of the General's memoirs: even the devil was an angel once.

Aura proposes that she and Felipe flee the house immediately, but Felipe hesitates and cites his contract.

Consuelo leaves the house for the day wearing her wedding dress, leaving Felipe alone with the final papers.

Felipe falls into a trance while studying the photographs and wakes to find the house has gone completely dark.

This pool focuses on the revelations and emotional turning points that gradually shift Felipe's understanding of the situation. Beginning with his casual dismissal of the advertisement, it tracks his dawning awareness that something is deeply wrong inside the house. Key moments include his confrontation with Consuelo over the burning cats, his growing obsession with saving Aura, and a dream in which the widow's face merges terrifyingly with the young woman's. The pool moves through the ritual of the broken communion wafer and Felipe's declaration of eternal love, into the final chapter where he reads the memoirs and realizes what Consuelo has spent decades trying to recreate. The story reaches its crisis when Felipe falls into a trance over the photographs, and the ultimate revelation arrives as moonlight exposes his partner as the old widow herself.