In the mountains of Madrid, Spain, a railway track on an abandoned bridge and a poem erased from the wall of a ruined building reveal a deliberately silenced story: the system established by Franco's dictatorship after the civil war (1936-39) that allowed hundreds of companies to use thousands of convicted Republicans as slave labor.

Renunciation, search and a constant questioning of his own roots marked the genesis of the artistic personality of Juan Downey (1940-1993), a pioneer in the use of video in the service of art. This film proposes an encounter with his life and work, through the stories of his closest collaborators and the artist himself.

Finding her relationship at a standstill, single mother Mel breaks up with her boyfriend. After he moves out, strange things start happening in her house that threaten her safety and well-being.