This drama tells how a sergeant and a security guard should investigate the brutal murder of a woman killed with an ax ..

After the death of her mother, Elena (Charo López), a mature woman, begins to realize that her life, although not alone, is marked by loneliness; her marriage to Enrique (Ramón Langa) is a failure, and her relationship with her daughter Merce (Ingrid Rubio) is almost nonexistent.

An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible in a deadly game from which only one of them will emerge intact.

Madrid, 1953. Gilda is a young orphan who difficultly survives in a ruined, post-civil war Spain. Opportunistic, ambitious and ruthless, she dreams of becoming a radio speaker and wants to get an official union card, a requisite for the job. She doesn't hesitate in joining an ultra-catholic fraternity and to become a police informant. But the suicide in prison of her aunt, a militant Republican, threatens to ruin her plans. She has only one solution left : to use her charms.

Finished the Spanish Civil War in April 1939, in November 1940, while Spain is being crushed by the ruthless boot of dictator Franco, Pepita travels from rural Córdoba to Madrid to be near her sister Hortensia, who is seven months pregnant and imprisoned, haunted by the shadow of a death sentence.

Madrid, Spain, December 27, 1870. General Juan Prim i Prats, president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of War gets involved in a treacherous ambush, is mortal injured and dies three days later. A mystery, a conspiracy, a murder that was never solved.

A well known journalist married to a Catalan writer appears murdered, and this fact attracts the more sensational press. The Civil Guard investigators, Sgt Bevilacqua and Chamorro, quietly remove the insides of a public life beyond appearances and dive into the weaknesses and insecurities that were behind the solvent and impeccable image of the victim.

In a Spain consumed by ambition and power, the future of an empire depends of the mind state of a single woman.