A scientist has discovered a formula that brings the dead back to life. Meanwhile, a prostitute, who dreams of writing a book in a brothel, meets a true writer with whom she falls in love. A satanic sect will cross into their lives.
A bank robbery goes wrong. The robbers, two of them unemployed family men, take two hostages, one of them needing heart medication, and leave them in an apartment, tied to a bomb. The police has to find the apartment before the bomb explodes. At the same time, in the same house, two old men are solving a jigsaw puzzle, and a female cellist practices the Bach cello suites.