Inés Sánchez Cruz, a Mexican poet living as a creative writing teacher in the United States, arrives at the Residencia de Estudiantes in Madrid to teach a poetry workshop and investigate a recent find: the family archive of Joaquín Amigo, one of Lorca's friends, also violently murdered and disappeared at the beginning of the civil war. Inés carries a deep anguish apparently as a result of the power struggles in the academic field and the betrayal by a close friend, but the death of one of her colleagues activates a series of traumatic memories that intermingle with the investigations of the documents and letters from the family archive.