Bilbao, 1984. In a time of industrial reconversion, within a closed society and an oppressive environment, Kepa, a young working class, decides to fight for his dreams and the flight of his spirit, but the cruel reality will make him fall.
Angela thinks that she has an ideal life. She lives in Nice, in a beautiful apartment, with a handsome husband and a charming teenage daughter. But on Christmas Eve, her daughter leaves her to get together with her boyfriend, her husband dumps her and her best gal pal prefers to take sleeping pills than spend the evening with Angela. It comes as a total shock. Angela has no other choice than to take a thorough look at herself and to piece herself together... which isn't easy with her tyrannical mother, an hysterical gal pal, and a psychiatrist who employs experimental methods.