Carmen, a well-known writer on her fifties, has returned a year ago to a farmhouse in the small town where she was born, in Bajo Aragón (Teruel, Spain). Her vital crisis is complicated when Eduardo, a film producer with whom she had a love affair twenty years ago reappears in her life.

Two brothers in financial dire straits, spurred by an unscrupulous lawyer, try to kidnap a construction tycoon but mistakenly capture a Catholic bishop instead. A frantic getaway ensues in search of a miraculous way out.