Swearing to his dying mother that he'll find the father he has never met, a certain Pedro P¿mo, Juan Preciado sets out across the barren plains of Mexico for Comala, the hallucinatory ghost town his father presided over like a feudal lord. Between the realms of the living and the dead, in fragments of dreams and the nightly whispers of Comala's ghosts, there emerges the tragic tale of Pedro P¿mo and the town whose every corner holds the taint of his rotten soul.