The story begins in the south of England, in 1990, where Ana is caring for her second ex-husband, who has returned to die alongside the woman he loves. One morning, the unexpected happens; It rains scorpions in a corner of her dying garden. This triggers a series of visits and conversations with her relatives, now dead, and with her ex-husband, Ed, about a past that Ana did not know, that of the women in her family during the Spanish civil war and the dictatorship, and about her own when when Franco died, which she left behind in Spain, but which has nestled in the recesses of her memory, like a cancer, and does not let her find peace, nor find herself.