Julián Leal is an inspector with the Barcelona police and is going through a rough time. The doctor has diagnosed him with cancer and said he doesn’t have long to live and he’s also just had a case brought against him for beating up a suspected child abuser. After paying a visit to his hometown in Galicia, bodies started appearing that could be connected to him and his boss wants to charge him with the murders in revenge for grudges related to events in their past. He and his colleague Virginia will find themselves dragged into an investigation much deeper and more complicated than they can imagine and which could cost them their lives and the lives of all those they love. Julián needs to settle his scores in both the present and with his past. This is a story about the route our dreams sometimes travel on the way to becoming nightmares.