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Irene vive con su hijo, David, un joven estudiante de arquitectura, y con supadre, Mateo, un anciano vitalista a pesar de su trágica historia: Mateo eracasi un niño durante la Guerra Civil y en la represión posterior a la contiendaperdió su casa y a toda su familia.David ha encontrado a Clara, o Clara lo ha encontrado a él, en elhipermercado cercano del que ella es cajera, y entre ellos ha surgido no sóloel amor sino también la comprensión, la complicidad.Hijo único de un matrimonio separado, David no puede evitar la hostilidadde su madre hacia una relación que ella cree que no le conviene, que pone enpeligro su futuro personal y profesional. Irene se entrega a su labor dedirección de un grupo teatral de invidentes, pero en casa ve abrirse una fallaque no sabe cómo superar.El engarce de todos ellos es Mateo, quizá por su edad, por su experienciao su bonhomía. Se pensaría que está alejado del mundo, pero sólo porque esemundo es mucho más amplio de lo que parece y en él ocupa un lugar esencial larecuperación de la dignidad de aquellos que fueron pisoteados por una guerrainfame y un régimen implacable.Ésas son sus vidas, cercanas y reconocibles. Hasta que un día un hechoinesperado las pondrá decisivamente a prueba y tendrán que aprender a vivir denuevo descubriendo cada uno de ellos lo que no sabía de los demás.

Irene lives with her son David, a young architecture student, and with herfather Mateo, an old man who is full of life despite his tragic history: he waspractically a child during the Spanish Civil War and during the post-warrepression, he lost his home and his entire family.David found Clara, or she found him, at the large supermarket nearbywhere she is a cashier. They not only love but also understand each other.As the only child of separated parents, David cannot escape his mother’shostility towards a relationship she feels is not good for him, as it puts hispersonal and professional future in jeopardy. Irene is deeply committed to herjob directing a theater group of blind people, but at home there is a growinggap she cannot see how to bridge.Mateo holds them all together, perhaps due to his age, his experience, orhis good nature. He might seem to be not of this world but only because theworld is much bigger than it looks and his place in it is essential, as aperson recovering his dignity, like all those who were trampled by a terriblewar and an implacable regime.Their lives are much like our own. Until one day, an unexpected eventwill put them to the test and they will have to learn to live all over again,as each of them discovers what he or she did not know about the others.