At the funeral of the extremely wealthy and powerful Spanish business magnate Julio Carrin, his son lvaro encounters Raquel Fernndez Perea, a young and attractive stranger from France who seems to know everything about the family, and soon leads lvaro on the road to uncovering the real origins of Julio's fortune and the roles Julio might have played during both the Spanish Civil War and as a member of the all-volunteer Spanish Blue Division that served in Hitler's German Army.