When VERA (Lola Dueñas) was young, she couldn’t take care of her newborn child. When CORA (Ana Torrent) was young, she was told that she could not have children and that the only way to start a family was to adopt a child.
This is a film noir story about a crime. A meeting of these two women on the banks of the Duero River.
Javi, an unfaithful, powerful man, drives down a poorly lit infrequently traveled road by night. He’s returning home from a supposed work trip. In the blink of an eye, one mistake will change Javi’s live forever.
Luz, a candid and responsible young woman, is hired as an intern. His only job is to take care of the lady of the house: an old woman in a vegetative state, unable to speak, move or do anything for herself.
It is a hard, routine and suffocating task. Little by little, Luz begins to take its toll. So much so that, as the weeks go by, he begins to develop an unhealthy obsession with the old lady...
...until turning work into a disturbing game of dependency and submission.
Maika belongs to a lineage of bird women. It is very likely that she is the last generation capable of surviving the veto that hangs over them. A mandate that makes them renounce their nature, fight against their instinct and agonize in life: THE PROHIBITION OF FLYING.
Sergio invites his five best friends and his sister, Alicia, seven years younger than him, to celebrate his fortieth birthday in a house he has rented in the countryside.The celebration will be cut short when Alicia confesses to the group that, three years ago, one of them sexually abused her in the bathrooms of a discotheque.The news of the aggression will cause a huge impact on the group and will lead to different reactions and consequences for each of them.