On the same day architect Sebastian Martell is made redundant, his restauranteur friends decide to buy a hotel in Spain. It needs renovating, and they need an architect. Scarcely believing his good fortune, he and his artist wife Roza are soon on a flight to Alicante. This period of serendipity is cut short when Seb stumbles across a body, hidden in the cellars for almost sixty years. This discovery unlocks the secrets of the Hotel Moralez, tendrils which lead to the Spanish Civil War and the tragedy of Guernica. With the hotel renovation project, their marriage, and even their lives in jeopardy, Seb and Roza must confront secrets within their own families.