In 1110s Islamic Spain, a banished court philosopher's affair with a supernatural girl lends his ideas persistence when she gives him a cohort of children to spread his beliefs to all corners of the world.

An orphaned young man is impressed into the Spanish armada, where he finds a new life among death.

In Seville, the Spanish police stop and interrogate a couple on why they left a wreath near a public monument, though the couple refuses to tell the truth.

In Spain during the Francoist dictatorship, a girl's father insists that their family will never speak Spanish again in favor of Basque — a small act of political defiance that slowly changes their lives, until they can never go back.

In pre-Civil War Spain, a little girl witnesses her famous matador uncle become plagued by superstition and deteriorate in his craft.

In a camp along a Spanish beach, thirty-five thousand men are separated by barbed wire, awaiting news of whether they will be allowed to leave Spain for Mexico. Every day, someone new escapes.

An American visits his family in Spain as the Spanish Civil War erupts. Familial tensions emerge as he argues against war with his wounded cousin, who served for the Nationalists.

After suffering a miscarriage with her husband of three years, a hotel housekeeper takes a leap of faith and sojourns with a hotel guest to Galicia amidst separatist violence in contemporary Spain. They spend a passionate and hallucinatory day together and end up in another hotel room.