Incendios forestales arrasan un pueblo en la frontera Galicia-Portugal. La periodista Lucía investiga, descubriendo verdades ocultas por el voraz incendio con lo que su investigación se vuelve personal.

Edward, civil servant, flees fiancée Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.