In an environment where citizens are kidnapped, raped, and tortured, homosexuality is a dangerous transgression. And yet, despite such societal realities, Romina, Flaca, Anita "La Venus," Paz, and Malena - five cantoras, women who "sing" - somehow, miraculously, find each other and discover an isolated cape, Cabo Polonio. Over the next 35 years, their lives move back and forth between Cabo Polonio and Montevideo.