Andres, aged 35, leads a quiet life, he has a girlfriend named Isabel he plans to marry, and lives in Mexico, with no other family than his mother Clara, who years ago fled there from the Spanish dictatorship. One day by chance, Andres finds out he has a grandfather who lives in a village in Galicia. This news so moves him, that he decides to drop everything and travel to Spain to reconstruct his own past and meet Justino, his grandfather.