Sunday's Illness

Anabel is a high-class old lady who lives happily in Barcelona (Catalonia, northeast to Spain) with her businessman husband Bernabe and their daughter Greta. But during a dinner party organized by Anabel, she sees for the first time in 30 years Chiara, her daughter from her first marriage, disguised as a staff member. Chiara reveals herself to her mother and asks if they can spend 10 days together. Anabel offers Chiara money instead, but when she refuses, a reluctant Anabel gives in to the request. They go to the isolated house they used to live in with Chiara's father, located in a little town in the French Pyrenees. Strangers to each other, Anabel and Chiara spend the days in uncomfortable situations; Anabel tries to learn the reason for her daughter's request, Chiara keeps silent about it. Anabel finds herself reliving her youth and trying to get to know her daughter again. Then Chiara finally reveals the real reason she wanted to spend time with her mother and makes a new request to an off-guard Anabel.