The novel takes place in a remote farmhouse called Mas Clavell, hidden among the Guilleries mountains. There, while an old woman lies on her deathbed, all the generations of women who have lived and died in that house (accompanied by memories, ghosts, beasts, and demons) gather to prepare a feast for her. Over the course of a single day, four centuries of family memories, pactes with the devil, stories of bandits, violence, and desires unfold.