Alicia is twenty-five years old. Alicia does stuff. Alicia is boring herself… that’s what she believes.

1492. Among the crew led by Christopher Columbus travel three men who by now should have been dead. They managed to avoid their sad fate by participating in this uncertain journey. After reaching the Canary Islands they flee taking with them one of the ship's sails. Meanwhile, in the "Old World", a woman tries to save her dying sister by taking her to a healer. Both of these trips attempt to make fun of death. Both of these trips are at the mercy of history

Alicia arrives at her parents’ house in A Pobra do Caramiñal, a coastal town in Galicia, to choose the clothes her mother will wear at the wake. There, she reunites with her sister Berta, who has just been released from the rehabilitation centre where she was staying.

Spain, 1937. In the midst of the Civil War, Helena lives with her mother and her brother Bruno, unrecognizable and covered in bandages after returning from the front. Their strange, dehumanized presence awakens in Helena a restlessness that mingles with blurred memories, changing spaces, and blurring realities.