Une femme mariée à un directeur de banque voit sa vie détruite en quelques heures lorsque la police découvre que son mari s'est enfui avec de l'argent de la banque.
Walter Mann is an actor who can make his life's dream come true: to star in his own play. However, the big moment that is about to arrive is interrupted by an internal struggle that will destabilize him emotionally.
Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.