خلاصه داستان : در یک عمارت اربابی قدیمی در شمال پرتغال، آنا به دوستش، امیلیا، که خانه‌دار مسنی است، کمک می‌کند. امیلیا مصمم است که به نظافت خانه‌ای که خالی از سکنه است و صاحبانش هرگز به آنجا نمی‌آیند، ادامه دهد...

At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana's daughter, challenges her mother's choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.