Nía is an 18-year-old girl who lives with her very conservative mother and the youngest of her siblings in the capital city of El Bierzo. Her dream is to be an actress and she continues to train in a self-taught way, although all this is truncated the day she meets Valeriano, an activist of the UGT in a Spain very dissatisfied with Azaña’s reforms. Their relationship flourishes in a fortuitous romance and full of passion that culminates with the pregnancy of Nía, and with the flight of Valeriano to Madrid, where the movement needs him.