影片描述一位出版社编辑在火车上遇见一名精神科医师，两人各自分享离奇经历，故事尚未说完，医生却消失无踪，一则比一则怪诞的故事开始展开。

The elderly caretaker of a remote morgue possesses an impeccable memory for everything but names. He passes his days showing corpses to those searching for their lost ones and tending to his beloved plants. When protest in a nearby city breaks out and the militia covertly raid the morgue to hide civilian casualties, he…

玛努埃拉（丝莉亚 洛芙　饰）的丈夫在儿子出生前就离开了妻子，玛努埃拉成为了单身妈妈，带着儿子埃斯特班来到马德里生活。儿子从不知道爸爸的事情，玛努埃拉只好对儿子说父亲已经过世。然而，儿子终究不相信。他在日记本里悄悄写下对父亲的想念。　　车祸来得那么突然，儿子被一辆迎面撞来的汽车夺走了生命。母亲悲伤不已，决定去找孩子的父亲…