In a magical town called Magdala, the Zamora family, consisting of the parents and their two children, find a briefcase full of money. Despite their ethics and morals, they decide to keep the money and use it to improve their quality of life. After several days of discussion, and with the help of the town's questionable priest, the family decides to fake the father's death to deceive the town about the origin of the money. The mother becomes obsessed with the idea of appearing wealthy

Emuna, an eight-year-old outcast, will undergo a transformation that will reshape the course of evolution. Her uniqueness will ignite a revolution, ushering in a brighter future for her entire community.

The director Nacho Ruiz-Capillas undertakes the digitalisation of over 6,000 photographic negatives, inherited from his grandfather Mariano, a cameraman and graphic reporter from before the Spanish Civil War until the 1960s. While he rescues these from their inevitable chemical fate, his mother Isabel, 88, begins to show signs of dementia, mixing past and present. These two processes of decomposition (that of the celluloid and the human memory) establish an unsettling parallelism that structures the documentary.