Rose and her daughter Sofia travel to the Spanish seaside town of Almer�a to consult with the shamanic Dr. Gomez, a physician who could possibly hold the cure to Rose�s mystery illness, which has left her bound to a wheelchair. But in the sultry atmosphere of this sun-bleached town Sofia, who has been trapped by her mother�s illness all her life, finally starts to shed her inhibitions, enticed by the persuasive charms of enigmatic traveller Ingrid. With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.