Patria is set in the Spanish Basque Country over a period of more than thirty years during ETA's separatist terrorism. It tells the story through the eyes of two families separated by the violent conflict. It follows Bittori and her family, whose lives collapse the day ETA kills her husband, Txato, on his doorstep. The relationship with her intimate friend Miren, whose son belongs to an ETA commando, also comes to an end. Both families deal with grief and moral contradictions as life goes on.