Sica (14) is obsessed that the sea will return her father’s body after a shipwreck on the Costa da Morte (Coast of Death), Galicia. While she walks the cliffs she meets a boy, Suso (15), the Storm Chaser, as weird as she is, who is waiting for the arrival of Ofelia, the mother of all storms. Sica investigates the circumstances that led to her father’s death and sets out on a painful journey of discovery. For her, the fishing town where she has grown up, marked by the brutality of its ocean and the growing imbalance of Nature, will never be the same again.