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...
Andres de Granada, a forty-benefit trade more clear, believed that the first months of 1993 are the best time to do business. It also has the help of his nephew Fulgencio, who has arrived in Madrid with the idea of learning the trade.
After a complicated divorce, Gabriel rents a remote house to live by himself. In one of the rooms he finds a strange box which contains different objects, each of which relates to an unresolved crime. Finding the connection between the victims and working out who the killer is become his obsession.