País Basco, Espanha, 1843. Um policial chega a um pequeno vilarejo em Álava para investigar um misterioso ferreiro que vive sozinho nas profundezas da floresta.
Victoria is a republican widow who enters in the prison of Saturrarán (Vizcaya), place where an experiment of the Franco regime takes part: the separation of children from their mothers to give them up for adoption to families close to the regime, in order to break the chains of communism.
