 Set in Galicia in northwest Spain - an area famed for its beauty and smuggling - this film shows a once-thriving fishing and shipbuilding culture fallen on hard times. Feisty, streetsmart Lena (Marta Larralde), 18, lives in semi-penury with her hard-drinking slob of a father, Gorrion (Manuel Manquiña), and hopes to escape by getting a grant to study in Portugal. Gorrion is mixed up with local drug-smuggling mafiosi, that includes Lena s godfather, Gypsy (Luis Tosar), their Portugese Cachero (Vítor Norte), and the strong, silent Milio (Roberto Álvarez). One day, Lena returns from her job to find Gorrion badly beaten up: The gang had accused him of stealing. Lena visits the gangsters and offers to help pay off her father s debt by working for them. After Gorrion forgets to deliver Lena s grant papers, a fragile emotional bond develops between Lena and Milio. When they set off to Portugal to do a job, events start to ramble.