When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband and daughter, and he recalls his childhood in times of the Spanish Civil War entwined with the present.

为什么这么好的一部西班牙女性剧会被人遗忘。。。影片讲述了两个从小被迫分开的亲生姐妹长大后不同的人生轨迹。两位西班牙当代最出色的实力派女演员：Carmen Maura出演见多识广的姐姐伊莲娜，一个喜欢旅行走遍了世界各国的自由摄影师，Verónica Forqué饰演妹妹克拉拉，典型的西班牙家庭妇女，却正受着丈夫的背叛和欺骗而痛苦不已，当她们俩经过多年之后再重逢时，两种截然不同的人生将交集在一起，每个人的生活也将受到对方的影响和改变。。。