Leo (Marisa Paredes) is a fortysomething writer of romantic fiction who hits a crisis point when she’s rejected by her aloof absentee husband and finds herself trapped in her populist reputation when she tries to expand her literary horizons. Although there’s support on hand from Angel (Juan Echanove), cultural editor of heavyweight newspaper El País, it’s the trip home to her native La Mancha village that proves an unlikely source of solace.