In the springtime, the goldfinches return to Alhucemas from the desert, the same desert from which Brahim's brother is returning after participating in the Green March. For Brahim, Alhucemas is his home, his habitat; he knows everyone there, and everyone there knows him. His life is spent at school and within the walls of his house, where his mother takes care of him and his older brother. From a very young age, Brahim has learned that death, disease, war, and madness are a part of an apparently simple world –a world in which, however, uncertainty is the only constant. Years later, Brahim goes to study at the School of Fine Arts in Tetouan, where his art teacher Olga has also moved, eager to reconnect with her art far from her native Madrid. Olga and Brahim meet as teacher and student, and from their meeting something is born between them that will change their lives.