Alice Howland is a renowned professor of linguistics. She is happily married and has three grown children. But everything changes when one day she starts forgetting words.

A theater director in creative crisis tries to deal with his life and the women around him. Finally, believing that it is not worth wasting his life, he decides to stage an "important and sincere play", for this purpose erecting a real live model of New York in an abandoned warehouse. He experiences the torments of love and suffers from incomprehensible illnesses.....

Modern Madrid. Raimunda, an attractive young Spanish woman, lives with her unemployed husband and her beautiful daughter. The family is catastrophically short of money and so she has to work several jobs at once. Raimunda is a strong-willed person, a born fighter, but like any woman, she is incredibly vulnerable. Since childhood, she has kept a secret....

A frightening tale of 12-year-old Carlos, who, after his father's death, finds himself at the Santa Lucia school in the care of principal Carmen and Professor Casares. The boy's father was a rebel killed in battle against Franco's regime. Although the orphanage is overwhelmed by the large number of children, the headmistress sympathetically accepts young Carlos.