After 20 years, Elsa and her younger sister, Maura, return to the house where they where raised. Carmen, the third sister, lives there alone and maintains the family’s meagre estates. Maura’s degenerative disease continues unabated, while Elsa and Carmen try to finally settle the distribution of their parents’ inheritance. Between almond harvests and never-ending arguments, old conflicts surface and seem to awaken a long dormant volcano.