While Madrid licks its wounds, the rest of Europe convulses toward the end of World War II. Elvira (Leonor Watling, of Almodovar’s Talk to Her and Bad Education) needs a job and she finds it in the home of Pablo (Leonardo Sbaraglia, Carmen; The City of No Limits) a German-born Argentinean businessman. For Elvira, the job is not only a means of support for her family—it’s also a door into a past she thought lost, a paradise of beauty and poetry she thought ended when the Fascists executed her father. Outside of those walls, Pablo and Elvira belong to two unrecognizable worlds and they know that the passion growing between them has its days numbered. Hitler’s suicide will accelerate events. Alina (Cecilia Roth of Talk to Her and All About My Mother) pressures Pablo to ensure the escape of a Nazi criminal through Spanish territory with the collaboration of Franco’s government. Elvira’s husband Julio (Ernesto Alterio, The Other Side of the Bed), a political prisoner, is released and will do anything to get back the woman he loves. Even putting her in danger.