Emilio interviews his family members about the death of his paternal great-grandfather due to the mining disease called silicosis, which will lead everyone to give their particular opinion about their connection with faith, death, and remembrance.
Javi and Dani go around the city trying to sell a stolen painting.
Antonio, in what seems to be his last days of life, remembers a Holy Week from his childhood, in a remote village in Cordoba. Seven days that made him the man he is, and the child he cries to become again. A letter from an adult mind, in memory of the past.
A series of old photographs awakens memories of childhood in post-war Spain, where a daughter and mother are struggling to find their place between grief and prejudice. Smells ambitiously attempts to stimulate our senses to help understand the protagonists' lives. With very few elements, the film succeeds in wafting off the screen, suffusing our memory.
