On a dark night in August, Josefa Goñi Sagardía, an enigmatic woman seven months pregnant, disappeared from the face of the earth with her six minor children. At first no one in town heard anything, no one knew anything. But secrets and ghosts began to settle inside the houses. At dawn the next day, the town awoke to a silence that lasted longer than anyone could have imagined. Buried instincts awakened by war. A woman and her envy, the superstitions of a priest, a civil guard driven by fear, the temptation of a father of a family, a repressed young man and a frightened town that keeps silent. Enlarged rumors. Insignificant, everyday offenses and feelings that become entangled with each other until they deform and turn into monsters.