Gaizka Egilegor

After interning her insane husband in a remote psychiatric hospital, book editor Helga Pato returns home by train, where she meets a mysterious man who identifies himself as a psychiatrist.

A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.

その日、コルドとクララはバルセロナの結婚式場で永遠の愛を誓い合う。新郎の従弟はビデオカメラを回し、参列者たちの姿を撮っていた。やがてカメラは一族きっての明るい性格の叔父ペペが、病院で犬にかまれたという、彼の右手に巻かれた包帯を映し出す。