1943. In the bitter years following the Spanish civil war, a young schoolmaster is posted to a village in the Pyrenees, where he settles with his pregnant wife. But his vision of an idyllic life in the mountains soon vanishes as he finds himself obliged to lead a double life, trapped between the township's pro-Franco sector and the clandestine struggle of the Maquis. Fifty years later, another teacher comes across the hidden notebooks where the schoolmaster set down his own story, diametrically opposed to the official story that has passed down over the years.