Galicia, northern Spain, January 2, 1921. The steamship Santa Isabel, sailing towards Argentina with more than two hundred emigrants on board, sinks off the coast of Sálvora Island. Three island women, María, Josefa and Cipriana, who have bravely set sail aboard a fragile skiff to save the shipwrecked, are treated as heroes by the cynical authorities; but León, an inquisitive and tenacious Argentinean journalist, starts asking uncomfortable questions.
Em 1910, acontecia na Igreja de San Jorge, na região de Coruña, na Galícia, um casamento inesperado entre Elisa e Marcela. Para driblarem as regras locais e poderem se casar, Elisa forja documentos de um parente falecido e se passa por um homem para viabilizar a primeira união homossexual da Europa.
