Investigating their respective family histories, Gloria and Marcel meet in Riofrío, a small mountain town which in the past was not spared the turmoil of civil war. Richard is a journalist covering an economic summit taking place in the exclusive Swiss town of Locarno, while he maintains an erotic relationship that is a carbon copy of one that unfolded in the same place in the 60s, and was the root of the problems that Gloria and Marcel are facing. El Moro, now a responsible businessman, fills his spare time in retirement by writing a memoir that is to cleanse the controversial role he played in the old days of Riofrío. Four narrative strands that are interwoven and complement one another to give a narrative as humourous as it is disconcerting, sharply outlined and highly thought-provoking.