After Lucía is hired as a secretary for a British mining corporation, she meets Peter, her manager, an Englishman with a shadowy past who will pressure the 25-year-old to choose one gang or another.

In a small submerged village on the Spanish-Portuguese border, two skeletons are discovered that reveal evidence of a bloody crime.

Set in a hostile small rural community, where antiquated traditions clash with modern-day sensibilities.