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...