A wealthy woman twice widowed, lives with his family and two servants in a shady country house in Galicia in the late nineteenth century isolated from the world to hide a serious incident occurred in the family ten years earlier. This event is subject to certain blackmail the family of which will be released by the arrival at the mansion of two strangers who triggered the investigation of the facts and a change in the future family life.
The poetic character returns by sea, after a long absence, to his native city, A Coruña. He remembers and visits certain spaces in the city that were fundamental for him in his childhood and youth.