The Sleeping Voice

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.