A lighthouse keeper and her late brother's best friend live together in a lighthouse, waiting for the south wind to scatter the ashes of the deceased.

A film director with a crisis of creativity, a journalist of Telemadrid, a butcher and a housewife with both legs in plaster, a North African taxi driver, an unemployed publicity manager, a young judge, a child of good family who works as a laborer. Amazingly, all these characters have something in common: they are spending the summer in Madrid. The relentless heat in midsummer will leave its mark on their lives