Learning of her mother's death in Paris, estranged daughter returns home to find a series of photo's where her mother, a renowned photo journalist, is seen with three Portuguese political exiles who were her friends.
Her mother has just died. Her father is not what she had thought. Caught between an uncertain past, which she knows only through the photographs her mother has left behind, and the prospect of a marriage that she does not really want, Elisa sets out to discover the truth. But will she recognize it when she finds it?