Lola Vidal i Ferrer is a teacher who has gotten through the school purges by keeping her head down. She did everything she was supposed to do: sign the declaration, speak only Spanish, and follow the rules. But inside, she wonders if all she’s done to survive makes her a coward or a realist.

Miquel Font i Casals is a Barcelona native who has worked in construction even during the war. Now he rebuilds what the Nationalists had destroyed, in a language not his own. He has his own ways of dealing with the Franco regime: building something with his own hands to protect all they have to hide.

When Miquel overhears Lola speaking Catalan to her students, he realizes that everyone is hiding something—and everyone is trying to preserve what little they can.

Between clandestine language classes and secret hiding spaces for Catalan books and documents, Lola and Miquel start work together. But what begins as a shared risk becomes something neither of them expected.

But the administration is closing in. Inspectors are near, raids are frequent, and their work could cost them everything.