After the death of his wife, Miguel decides to take a trip, postponed for many years, Argeles-sur-Mer, a small town in southern France, where thousands of refugees are concentrated for some time.

A parking alone. Enter a car. He gets a woman who goes to the output. Say a few steps behind him. It gives them importance. Go through the door to the elevator: A man follows her. Bring a hammer in his hand. Hours later a team of researchers, a coroner and chief forensic department, are implemented. In a car park found the body of a woman with a shattered skull. The head is covered with a plastic bag next to the body, there are footprints of running shoes and wrap a mint ...

El cor de la ciutat is a TVC television soap opera first broadcast on TV3 on 11 September 2000 and last broadcast on 23 December 2009. The show is the most watched fiction program in Catalonia, Spain, especially among female audiences, drawing around 28-33% of the audience with as much as 40% during season finales. El cor de la ciutat follows the lives of the people who live and work in the neighbourhood of Sants and Sant Andreu in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

The film depicts ten years of Catalan history, from 1899 with the defeat of the Spanish side in the Cuban War of Independence to the Tragic Week 1909.