After the funeral of his daughter, Anna, Armando announces his return in a brief phone call. Iris, the mother of Anna, convinces Sofia to wait for a man at a villa with her and her sister-in-law Clara, but doesn't realizzato that Sofia was Anna's girlfriend. The following day, Letizia and Dario arrive at the villa - Letizia is the ex-wife of Armando, Dario is Armando's eldest son. The days pass but Armando never arrives - The wait becomes disconcerting - the villa becomes a prison, the people inside feel like they might crumble but they still wait for Armando. Sofia is the first to try to escape, and while she tries to come to terms with the death of Anna and the apparent vanishing of her possessions, her dispraising of Armando grows to breaking point and she makes a deep decision in the final twist of the story.