In the city of Anywhere, Arnold is a middle-aged mouse in an existential/relationship crisis. His marriage with María is sinking and he feels that everything around him is fake, like SCENERY!
Victor, a widowed father and his little daughter Julia, leave Spain when Barcelona falls to the Francoists in 1939. Concentration camps and hardships await them in France. But there is a possibility of fleeing: embarking on the Winnipeg a freighter that Neruda and the Quakers in Paris have chartered, to take them safely to a new destination: Valparaíso, Chile, where a new life is possible.