A poetic family chronicle in which a diplomat’s daughter and her two sisters try to come to grips with the great drama in their mother’s life. The film deals with all that pulsates beneath the omissions, the deviations that arise from trying to piece together Silvia’s memory. Part documentary, part re-cut, the fragments of the past are accentuated, blurred, frozen, and played backward until the family chronicle becomes a universal drama, raising questions about memory, truth, illusions and appearances, as well as the nature of parent-child relationships.