Hired to find husbands for three wealthy sisters, chaperone Elena Bianda is drawn into a late 19th-century world of love, scandal and comic intrigue.
Hugo has lost the love of his life and he intends to get her back by learning to play the piano for a year. Nerea, his neighbor, will be the one to help him achieve it by giving piano lessons.
Eight foreign characters recall their exploits and fears in Malaga, a paradise city that starts a revolution on July 18th 1936, as the military coup is stopped by popular rebellion, until February 9th 1937, when Mussolini troops take Malaga and put it under the rule of Franco. Seven months that shape the stark tale of a besieged city, the first capital to be conquered in Spanish Civil War and a prelude of WW2.
Lina and Nico break up after many years together, and Lina struggles to find a new life and to think about him a little less each day.