In the working-class suburbs of Bilbao in 1989, a children's rhythmic gymnastics team is preparing to take part in a championship to be held in Berlin. As mothers are unable to accompany their daughters, the task falls to the fathers.

María, escritora y madre primeriza, está obsesionada con un escandaloso incidente: Alice ahogó a sus mellizos de diez meses en la bañera. María solo podrá comprender la intensa experiencia de su propia maternidad escribiendo sobre Alice.