Vero learns to drive with her father, who has not seen her for years. An unexpected event drives them to horror in a clift area known as 'The Cross'.
Leo, a young fly just stay alone in the world, finds an only company in a bitter old professor.
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
