Prompted by the death of her Portuguese father, Elizabeth returns to Lisbon with her teenage son and daughter, Max and Victoria, both born and raised in the United States. Though the purpose of the trip is to spread the ashes of her deceased father at sea, Elizabeth is confronted both with a Lisbon much changed since her father migrated to Mexico, but also with the encounter of her familial past with her present family. By allowing all three members of the family to narrate their experiences, the film becomes a poetic, intergenerational portrait that deals deeply with themes of abandonment, migration, and belonging.