Based on a real testimony, "Where the cold burns" takes us back in time through an atmospheric journey towards the feelings of a woman. Aurora arrives at her childhood home in the midst of an accumulation of fog and intense cold. Uneasy, she visits this place to reunite with her dead father. But the past overwhelms her, those uncomfortable events of her childhood are relived, which has been marked by the love and abuse of her father.

A film student, Samurai, decides to make a documentary on Casandra's, a table dancer, work and family life. The nearness of both makes her fall in love to the filmmaker. He prefers to leave her and finish the work filming her in secret; this abandonment makes the story finish on a tragedy.

Helen lives with her son Bruno, but Bruno doesn't behave like a normal kid. She will have to overcome the mourning crisis to withstand reality.