Carla gets a call from the small town where she grew up in the South of Spain. Her father, who she hasn't spoken with in many years, is very ill. She refuses to face it and decides, against everyone's opinion, to take him to Barcelona, where she is convinced they'll be able to save him. They'll travel across the country in a desperate race to steal time from sickness and death, trying to recover lost time. And it is in that flight where the will finally find each other.
2015. Raquel Crespo is woman from Bilbao (Basque Country, north to Spain) desperate to recover his little daughter Alba. Having to pay a bribery of 35,000 EUR (42,000 $) to a corrupt social services who works in child custody, Raquel goes to a bank named Nortcaja in the neighborhood of Santutxu to talk with the bank manager Elías for obtaining the money, offering her parents' house as endorsement in exchange for opening an bank account and finally get the 35,000 EUR loan. Accepting the terms, Elías talks with the bank teller Cristina to make the operation but seconds before to end it, two felonious named Jonan and Lola appear in the bank to make a robbery. Closing the bank, Jonan and Lola retain as hostages to Elías, Cristina, Raquel, young girls Iratxe and the Russian Daryna, Mikel the technical computer and Gregorio the bank guard. Hoping that the robbery be easy and obtaining a loot of 400,000 EUR (485,000 $), things complicate from the beginning: Toñín, a corrupt cop working as.
July 18, 1936. Salamanca, Castilla and León (centre to Spain). The Spanish army declares in the city the state of war, hoping to extend it to the rest of Spain and improve the unstable situation in the country after the proclamation of the Second Republic five years ago. An aging Miguel de Unamuno, not only writer and academic teacher but one of the most recognized intellectuals in Spain, disappointed with the Republic that publicly he helped to create, supports the new revolt in the hope to clean the country of the undesirable elements for desperation of his close friends teacher Salvador and priest Atilano, creating too problems in his house where Miguel lives with his daughters María and Felisa, his housemaid Aurelia and his grandson Miguelín. At the same time that Salamanca's mayor Casto Prieto is arrested without cause apparent and his wife Ana Carrasco asks help Miguel de Unamuno, the Joint Chiefs of Staff meet to decide the strategy to take the power, where the merciless.
Three women, Elsa, Julia and Amelia meet every Thursday morning for a brisk chatter walk before work. The three middle-aged women discuss their lives, views and opinions and although they don't always agree, their rich, humorous conversations shed light on what it feels like to be a woman half way through your life.
Through compelling dialogue, crafted by Querejeta and writing partner Antonio Mercero, this heartfelt story of sisterhood will make you want to get your trainers on and head out with the girls.
2019, City of Valencia (Valencia; East to Spain). At her 45-years, Rosa is a woman at the edge of the abyss: besides her work as costume designer for movies, she as a full-time second work helping to her dysfunctional family: her older brother Armando is an English teacher which marriage with Marga is close to the divorce, with two children that ignore him openly; her sister Violeta works as interpreter in conferences who feels displaced by her young partners, fearing to be fired by it; her daughter Lidia lives in Manchester with her absent-husband Johnny caring their baby twins; her father Antonio, an aging widow who still misses his wife two years after her death, tells Rosa his intention to move with her unable to live alone in his own house; and as if it wasn't enough, her boyfriend Rafa is a man with too much work unable to listen Rosa when she talks him. Overwhelmed by the situation, Rosa travels her natal town Benicassim to visit the former tailor shop of her mother. Dreaming with a new life where she can be free and happy, Rosa decides reopen the shop at the same time that wants to seal this new life with a drastic decision: marry with herself. While Armando and Violeta turns crazy searching for a missed Rosa, Lidia returns Spain with the baby twins, just to find Rosa's house empty and with no furniture. Realizing where she is Armando, Violeta and Lidia travels Benicassim to discover Rosa's intention to marry. Thinking wrongly that Rosa marries with Rafa, Armando turns by himself in the wedding planner obsessed with the idea to give his sister a wedding in style, while the news runs like gunpowder by the town. With Lidia feeling a stranger to her mother eyes, Violeta receiving bad news from her job and Armando planning to sell the tailor shop to make extensions in his school, Rosa finds herself unintentionally in the eye of the hurricane, looking for a way to explain her true intentions before her own wedding gets out of hand.