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This research takes as its subject matter the film La mujer sin cabeza by Lucrecia Martel (2008). Our case study will be a continuity error found during the third scene, where the main character, Verónica (María Onetto), has a traffic accident. Our goal is to identify the narrative consequences of this mistake within the film, accepting that such dissonance has a series of meaning implications affecting the film and creating a tonal atmosphere consistent with the director's view. To explain the narrative consequences of such an error (seen as such under the Classical Continuity System), the methodology followed will be textual analysis, using the trace concept as guidance. In addition, the classification of sounds developed by Michel Chion in his book Audiovision (Sound on Screen) will be applied to the soundtrack. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]