L'histoire se situe en 1936 dans un village de Galice, dans les mois qui précèdent la Guerre civile espagnole et se centre sur la relation entre un écolier et son professeur.
In 1960, Martín and Marcos are forced by their difficult personal circumstances to travel to Switzerland in search of work, leaving their families in the Madrid of Franco's Spain. But they undertake more than a simple journey; they begin the road to a new life.