Plot

In 1940, just after the Spanish Civil War, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, who is in prison and pregnant. There she falls for a bourgeois who is keeping the fight alive in the hills.

In the post-Spanish Civil War of 1940 in Madrid, sisters Hortensia and Pepita are involved with an underground guerrilla movement. Hortensia is captured and forced to deliver her baby in jail, and Pepita tries to find a way to help the guerrilla and her sister.—Paranoid_Android_82

Pepita, a young woman from rural Cordoba, travels to Madrid in 1940, when the country suffers the consequences of the Spanish Civil War ended a year before, to be near her sister Hortensia who is pregnant and in prison. Pepita meets Paulino, who comes from a bourgeois family in Valencia, who fights alongside his brother in the mountains of Madrid. Despite the difficulty in their relationship, they fall in love passionately. Hortensia is sentenced to death. The execution will not be carried out until after delivery. Pepita tries by every means to prevent the execution. She goes every day to the prison to plead for Hortensia not to give up her child for adoption and place him/her in an orphanage.—AnonymousB

Two sisters, Tensi and Pepita find themselves caught up in politics in the turmoil following the Spanish Civil War, when Franco's police started to go after people who disagreed with the regime. The pregnant Hortensia (Inma Cuesta) is locked away in a crowded women's prison because of her republican ideology. Her younger sister Pepita (María León) moves from Andalusia to Madrid to be near her and tries to look for influence people who could help her sister; actually she works cleaning a house of a family which is very close to Franco. Finally, Pepita achieves to delay her sister's fusillade until her baby born. Pepita meets young fighter Paulino (Marc Clotet), whose best friend, Felipe (Daniel Holguín), is Hortensia's boyfriend. Paulino and Felipe are two republicans hidden in the mountains and who are very looked by the police because of their politic activism, and Pepita will try to help them to get away from police. Pepita will keep Hortensia and Felipe in contact by letters, risking her life; and she will be tortured by police to say where Paulino and Felipe are hidden, but she will resist the pain. Meanwhile, Hortensia will find support and comfort in their cell companions, Tomasa and Reme, but will also suffer abuse from the regime's jailer, called "Zapatones" who tortures all the prisoners and forces them to go against their ideas. Finally, Hortensia's baby girl is born and, despite all the effort made by Pepita, Hortensia is killed by police. Pepita's boyfriend, Paulino, is sent to prison during nine years but achieves avoid his death penalty, and they get married after all that time.