Fed up with the Basque Country, Mikel accepts a job offer from a relative and emigrates to Argentina, where he finds a community of Basque descendants who idolize him for coming from the land they so idealize.

Nora is in her 30s and has barely left her village. When her grandfather passes away, Nora decides to journey along the Basque coast to reunite his ashes' with her grandma's.

Unable to fly the nest due to the economic crisis that grips Spain, a penniless, young couple have trouble consummating their fledgling relationship in their parents' homes.