Brothers Nero and Miguel are unaware of each other's existence; they didn't even know their father, until he wrote them a letter inviting them to his own funeral. Thus the siblings meet for the very first time at a train station, only to find out that no trains have run through there for years. So they begin their wanderings through the Castilian Meseta, a scorched landscape instilled forever with their father's stories punctuated by chance encounters with the weird and wonderful characters that inhabit that land.