아버지가 돌아가신 후 서재를 정리하던 ‘클라렌스’는 과거 스페인의 식민지였던 기니에서 온 의문의 편지를 발견하고, 가족들의 과거를 추적하기 위해 낯선 곳으로의 여행을 떠난다. 그곳에서 자신의 아버지 ‘하코보’와 작은아버지 ‘킬리안’, 그리고 원주민 처녀 ‘비실라’의 존재를 알게 되고, 숨겨졌던 두 남녀의 비극적 사랑의 역사와 마주하게 되는데…
Miguel travels to Pontevedra, his hometown, with the request of serching for some locations for a movie. His trip takes him back to the place where he grew up, meeting up with some old friends, but also leads him to the possibility of a new relationship: Alicia, a young nurse who will get to calm him down.
Miguel will try to finish his work even though he mostly prefers to film the natives he meets, the movements and faces of his friends, the trains coming or the sea. A journey around the uprooting (the cinema) and love.
In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of women left alone in Galicia towards America. Many of them were illegal, with papers that falsified their age and even their identity. Common stories like Merce's, no place to go nor to go. In addition to work at the Mil8 factory, home and attend accounting classes, but a good day the norm is falling for something as simple as capturing a situation that is not yet able to name.
L. is a seventeen girl. This is the last afternoon of her summer holidays at the coast, so she grabs her bike to go and see C., a boy she met throughout the summer. The two of them had planned to spend their last afternoon by the beach, but a walk over town and a few casual encounters will make an impact on L.