Nacho Vigalondo's time-travel thriller opens with Hector spying on a beautiful woman undressing in the woods near his property.
Investigating, he finds her assaulted and he in turn is attacked by a man whose head is swathed in bandages.
Fleeing, Hector encounters a scientific facility where a scientist persuades him to hide in a time machine. Travelling back in time just a few hours, he observes himself in his garden.
But as he drives home, an accident injures his head and the beautiful woman he saw in the woods comes to his aid, wrapping his head in bandages...
As events escalate, things begin to go disastrously wrong and Hector must go back in time again to try and undo a pattern of violence in this thought-provoking examination of the nature of time.