The film follows two prisoners in the near future who are sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor on a distant planet. As things unravel, they become increasingly paranoid and start to lose a sense of who they are and their past lives.
In the working-class suburbs of Bilbao in the 1980s, a children's rhythmic gymnastics team is preparing to take part in a championship to be held in Berlin. As mothers are unable to accompany their daughters, the task falls to the fathers.