Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.

Enric Marco, a Spanish trade unionist, claims to be a survivor of Nazi concentration camps.

In 1942, the new Francoist bishop wants to regain control of the Pyrenean and Andorran territories, whose forests are occupied by Nazi soldiers and Republican maquis. Some of these have been found murdered after various violations. The bishop’s vicar and the village priest, Tomàs, have to investigate what is happening and what connection it has with the country’s ancient supernatural legends.