A young pregnant woman named Mia escapes from a country at war by hiding in a maritime container aboard a cargo ship. After a violent storm, Mia gives birth to her child while lost at sea, where she must fight to survive.

In September 2003, Alejandra López de Lemos, eldest daughter of a professor of art history at the University of Seville, disappeared without a trace. All suspicion falls on her ex-husband, but the police find no evidence against him. Several months pass and the media attention wanes. Then a journalism student decides to do her final project on the case...