Clota and Stella are mother and daughter living together in an old family house. Their bond is blurred and they seem doomed to be joined, clinging, confined to one another in a suffocating routine. Stella's attempts at becoming independent have been weak and Clota hasn't done much to help her.

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One day Stella receives some news: her estranged father has died and left her two apartments in a desolate seaside town as inheritance. Stella sees the inheritance as a chance for a new life, and decides to set out on a trip to to finally become independent. But Clota wants to sell them and live well for a few years. Seeing no way out of it, Stella agrees to travel with her mother. But when Clota discovers Stella's true intentions, she perceives it as a surgical and terrifying separation.