The story of a friendship between two girls of different races, Susana and Rita, in Equatorial Guinea, from 1950 to 1961. Susana discovers with her friend a fascinating but troubled new world in Africa, where she comes of age and experiences love and sex.

Ana is Catalan, daughter of a bourgeois family and works in a studio in advertising. She is 38 years old and has only lived with her husband, with whom she has a relationship cold but accepted by both. Although his family is opposed, decides to leave her husband and takes a vacation with her daughter Barbara, of 12 years, in order to leave behind all the past and start a freer life, with fewer ties, less conventional.

Una historia de la Transición española contada en primera persona por los principales protagonistas: por un lado, los políticos, idealistas o meramente oportunistas, que la llevaron a buen término en las tribunas y los despachos; por otro lado, los ciudadanos que, en las calles, la apoyaron sinceramente o la combatieron con ferocidad. (Precedida por «No se os puede dejar solos»).

1969 film by Cecilia Bartolomé