A film director living in London is dying of cancer. He greatest film would have told the story of village as the last hours of A.D. 999 approached. The film will never be made, be he is still working it out in his head.
Returing to Mexico City to attend her father's funeral, Meche runs into an old friend with whom she discovered she could cast spells using music, reviving buried memories that cause her to question her estrangement from her loved ones.