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Olivia Brontë, a movie star, travels to Switzerland for a photo shoot with a major fashion magazine. There she will meet Tristán del Val, a Spanish philosopher whom she met years ago. This reunion will lead them to revisit the past and reconsider their future.

The director's swansong, also a vehicle for his actress wife here a failing opera diva who kills herself. The actress later appears as different women interviewed by police: a peasant, a schoolteacher, a bargekeeper's raucous wife.

The formerly great Swiss hotel which Valentin's family owned when he was a boy has been emptied and is about to be torn down. He revisits the magical site's empty halls and ballrooms.

The tourist season is over. Peace and monotony have settled in at a large lakeside hotel. Jacqueline, her sister Helen and her husband Hans are still there, seemingly living in harmony. But Jacqueline has a secret desire to break the routine and get away from it all. One day, as she once again hits the road in her Buick, she runs into a young man, Mark. He takes up residence in the hotel until he recovers. Jacqueline senses that this man could be the one she needs to make a fresh start.

After the dead of their son, a broken marriage travels to Switzerland to bring back his body. There they will embark on an emotional journey of grief, love and despair.