One winter´s night, a woman, Pilar escapes from her house. With her, she takesjust a few things, and her son, Juan.Antonio is soon on her trail. He says Pilar is his sunshine and what´s more,she "gave him" her eyes.Throughout the film, the characters struggle to rewrite a strict set of familynorms decreeing who´s who and who does what. They´re based on all the wrongnotions. Where it says "home", read "hell"; where it says, "love", there ispain; and where those norms promise protection, they really mean terror.