Spring of 1919, Font del Lleó square, Caldes de Montbui. Lola has just lost her mother and arrives in the small village to fulfil her last wish: to deliver a music box to Ignasi Ventura, the owner of the Ventura Thermal Baths. Ignasi is moved by the sight of the young girl, who bears a striking resemblance to Violeta, her mother, who left the place when she was young. With nowhere else to go and deep in mourning, Lola decides to stay at the thermal baths, driven by curiosity about Ignasi.
Family secrets come to light, and personal and social tensions are heightened at the Ventura Thermal Baths, which will become a beautiful metaphor for Lola’s personal growth and the social change of the era, culminating in the proclamation of the Second Republic.
“For the rest of my life, I would remember that moment when the hot water gushed from the fountain endlessly, while I anointed myself with my mother’s lily perfume to gather the strength needed to tear through time. I wanted to penetrate the most sacred: her memory.”