In one of the last rural schools on the border between Galicia and Portugal, Mariana, a four- year-old girl, discovers the world through the narrations of her teacher. Children’s stories are mixed with the legends and stories that still inhabit the place. The stories follow one after the other, the years go by and Mariana grows up. At eighteen years old she faces an important decision, to leave her village, to separate from her mother to study abroad.