Victor Dalmau is a young doctor when he is caught up in the Spanish Civil War, an event that leaves his life - and the fate of his country - forever changed. Together with his sister-in-law, the pianist Roser, he is forced out of Barcelona and into exile in Chile. There they find themselves enmeshed in a rich web of characters wo come together in love and tragedy over the course of four generations, destined to witness the battle between freedom and repression as it plays out across the world.