The 70-year-old French photographer Albert Tueis is preparing an exhibition of his photographic works. Only, he lacks photos that he had taken at the age of 19, while he was a photographer for the French army at the time the war of independence of Morocco, and that were never published. To complete the retrospective of his career, Albert returns to Morocco in search of the negatives he believes to be safely buried in the country. But not everything goes as planned, and the photographer is confronted with the demons of his past...
The story takes place in April 1956, when the Spanish presence in northern Morocco ends. Santiago, a young Spanish lawyer, son of an influential family in Spain, arrives in Tetouan, the capital of the Protectorate, to find a family and a house. His fate will dig into a past that nobody wants to relive.