María Steinberg

Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…

After the sudden death of his wife, Tomás, a successful elderly writer who has been out of Spain during the last forty years, unexpectedly receives an old tarot card which seems to have for him a disturbing meaning, so he decides to return to the small village where he grew up.

25歳の夏にラモン・サンペドロは、事故により首を骨折、寝たきりの生活を送る身体になってしまう。それから26年後、ラモンは自ら人生にピリオドを打つことを決意するが、弁護士フリアと村の女ローザと出会う。