Two Spanish women from different generations find themselves sharing a hospital room in Belgium. María has been living there for decades after emigrating when she was young and Verónica is a young girl recently arrived in search of opportunities she never found in Spain. A strange friendship is forged between them and this leads María to set out on a return journey to the south of Spain with an unusual mission. What begins as a search for Verónica's roots will become an opportunity to open herself up to the world and question certain principles on which she had based her life.

María y Verónica son dos inmigrantes españolas de diferentes generaciones que se encuentran en un hospital en Bélgica. Allí comienzan a forjar una relación de amistad e intimidad hasta que un inesperado acontecimiento llevará a María, la mayor, a emprender un viaje al sur de España en busca de la familia de Verónica. Una vez allí, María comenzará a cuestionarse sus más sólidos principios.