Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker in the twilight of his career, is invited to presented his most important work at a retrospective in Madrid. Memories come crashing down on him and Salvador begins to reflects on his life and on the choices he has made. His childhood, his first love, his discovery of cinema: they all reappear with searing, painful vividness.

Alain and Léonard, a writer and a publisher, are overwhelmed by the new practices of the publishing world. Deaf to the desires of their wives, they struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack.