"Madrid. Today. Raimunda is a young mother, hard working and very attractive, with an unemployed husband and a daughter in mid-adolescence. The family finances are very shaky, so Raimunda has got several jobs. She is a very strong woman, a born fighter, mut also very fragile emotionally. She has kept a terrible secret to herself since childhood. Her sister Sole is a little older. Timid and fearful, she makes her living with an illegal (undeclared) hair salon.
Her husband left her and went of with a client. Since then she has lived on her own. Paula is their aunt. She lives in a village in La Mancha where the whole family was born. A village swept by the east wind, the direct cause of a high rate of insanity registered there. That damn wind is responsible for many fires that devastate the area every summer. The parents of Sole and Raimunda died in one of those fires. "