Follows the Díaz-Aguirre family, whose perfect universe turns upside down after the death of the patriarch, who in his will asks his wife to recover the 'Sardinete', his first fishing boat which is rusting in a Moroccan port.
Literary adaptation: a Spanish count tries to learn, as a matter of family honor, which of his putative grand daughters resulted from an affair by his daughter in law with a Parisian painter.
