In Buenos Aires, a few days before traveling to Spain with his beloved wife Liliana Rovira to visit their son Pedro, the leftist Literature professor Fernando Robles is compulsory retired in the University, and he concludes that it is impossible to live with his pension. The crisis in Argentina does not allow Fernando to get a new job, and his wife decides to sell her family's apartment and move to a small farm near Villa Dolores to reduce their expenses. Fernando comes up with the idea to grow lavender and sell the oil to the perfume industry.
An Argentinean family living in Spain has their lives rocked when a famous author from their home country claims that their daughter is actually his granddaughter who was lost during a war.
На мать-одиночку Мануэлу обрушивается самое ужасное из земных несчастий — в автокатастрофе погибает её единственный сын Эстебан.
Подвергнувшись спонтанному порыву, убитая горем женщина возвращается в город своей бурной юности — Барселону. Там она встречается с призраком Прошлого, чьи уродливые когти безжалостно царапают судьбы людей в Настоящем. Мануэле предстоит встреча с отцом Эстебана и его окружением, от которых она сбежала шестнадцать лет назад.
Spain, 1974. A teenager and his father are traveling in a car that is the only property they have. Their life is a continuous move by desolate coastal apartments in the tourism low season. When forced to change route and get away from sea, their lives will change dramatically.
The relationship that botanist Angel establishes in his mind between plants, their stems, petals and pistils and the legs and feet of women, is the common thread of a plot that mixes sexual passion, love, greed and picaresque through a study of characters and situations.
