In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
The Teresines are three single, retired sisters who live together in a flat in the Gracia neighborhood of Barcelona where, together with their neighbors (all very colorful and fun), they spend the day gossiping and working in the underground economy, preparing orders in their house.
