Carmina has always been single and despite her age and her terminal illness she continues to live alone and is very independent, although her fragile memory and the pancreatic cancer that progresses relentlessly make it more and more difficult for her. She adores her nieces, but she doesn't want to hear about or live with them, or go to any residence or anything other than continue smoking, drinking Pedro Ximénez's glasses and doing her holy will . Aware that she has little time left to live, she wants to leave all her affairs, materials and others, well ordered to die in peace. She sorts out the papers, the photos, the jewelry, and since her pulse is trembling a little and she prefers to talk, she buys a tape recorder into which she dictates the story of love and adventures that she lived more than 60 years ago and that marked her life forever.