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Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age. She can be feisty and edgy, which sometimes gets in the way of what would make her happy. And she regularly threatens to leave Antonio. Will she, and on what terms? What will he do?

A Spanish Gypsy who sings, sells fish and helps a professor prepare a dictionary.

Amós (Carmelo Gómez) is a humble sailor and boat operator. He excitedly awaits the arrival of an uncle of his who is returning to Spain after being exiled in the Soviet Union since the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). But they never meet because the old man unexpectedly dies. Amós suspects from the letters his mother received that his uncle was keeping something of great value but he can't find it in his relative's belongings. He begins to investigate and soon discovers that it is a painting by Pablo Picasso. The painting is used as a guiding thread of the film that, in addition to its economic value, Amós searches for its sentimental importance.

Fifteen years after the plot a lawyer and a military ex-attorney meet and recall the intense days of 1975 when both participated in the decission of war or peace. The film is told in flashbacks of the two protagonists.