A dressmaker from a working-class district of Barcelona falls in love with a factory workman who she met at a dance.
She sees the possibility of improvement in her savings and work: a response to the family vocation of finding wellbeing in a modest and ordered life, linked to shared values.
He wants to strike it rich, wants to try to be a boxer and bullfighter: in an intuitive way, he puts into practice the individualistic ideals of his grandfather, an anarchist in the thirties.
Through the eyes of the couple’s son, the relationship between father and mother is reconstructed, the fondness they have for each other and their inability to understand one another; tragic characters, condemned to follow the road to a fatal destiny. For the boy, culture is the way to escape from the family tangle. The discovery of his father’s alcoholism and inability to overcome his addiction, introduces an unexpected element which calls for understanding and forgiveness.
This personal story is told in parallel to the changes in the city of Barcelona. The main feature of the style is its naturalness: the tale is narrated with controlled emotion, avoiding any overdramatizing and delivers a poignant impact in the double climax of its ending.