Sira is seamstress in Madrid. She meets Ingacio and they will marry each others. But then Sira meets Ramiro in the typewriter shop and she can't stop thinking about him.
It narrates the life of Sira Quiroga, a young dressmaker who, dragged by the love towards a man, leaves Madrid in the months before the Civil War to settle in Tangier. But there things will not go as she had planned, and will be forced to take the reins of her life.