April 15th, 1939. Two weeks after the end of the Spanish Civil War, lieutenant Medina bursts into the Hotel Palace with an unexpected announcement: Franco will dine there that night with his top generals. What they don’t know is that the dinner will be prepared by a group of Republican chefs who have just been given their last chance to escape the country.
Eva is at a happy time of her life with her new partner, Nazario, a successful author, and his daughter Alicia, a teen she hopes to get along with; at last she has a family who will let her forget the past. But it won't be that easy. The horror she suffered at the hands of her ex-husband José, a possessive and violent cop, returns to threaten her idyll. This will be a journey of fear, to a place that has terrible consequences for everyone. But nothing is what it seems... and everyone bears witness to parallel truths.
During World War II, the icy Kazakh steppe was home to Spassk99, a Soviet-era labour camp into which the URSS would throw the enemies of the people. Amongst them were Spaniards from opposing sides: republican soldiers trained by the URSS, jailed on wanting to leave Russia at the end of the war in Spain, and volunteers with the Blue Division, captured after fighting with the Nazis in Leningrad. Natural enemies who must put their ideological differences to one side and join forces.
Theo, “The Gentleman”, is a former American soldier whose lonely and miserable existence plays out between his memories and his Thursday meetings with Olga, a prostitute he pays to talk with him. When Olga is murdered, he embarks on a violent quest for revenge. The trail of blood he leaves behind is followed by Iborra, an alcoholic police inspector, and Herodes, a ruthless hitman. The intersection of these characters on the edge will suddenly come to a head when the present comes to collect the debts of the past.
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