Señor X
A kidnapping is serious business. But when the kidnappers are school teachers things can get complicated.
Amancio
He's the bartender at a bar with no parishioners. There he spends his nights yearning for good times, now that he can not even attract his only neighbor: a stray dog. He only has his Pomace to attract some clueless soul. However, he prefers something much more select, human blood. His luck changes with the arrival of two visitors but the Fortune has reserved a surprise for him. Their new preys are family. Amancio has to choose between ending his lonely existence or his thirst for blood.
Rafa
While Mario is driving under the rain, he finds a woman in the middle of the road, disoriented and covered in blood, who does not remember where she has been or what happened to her. Looking for assistance, Mario stops at a quiet bar called The Den.
The story of the Balmis Expedition, funded by the King of Spain, to bring the smallpox vaccine to Spanish America.
José
Justo Caralimpia
마드리드의 문제 가정에서 자란 한 10대 소년이 학교에 가지 않고 친구와 어울려서 훔친 자전거 부품을 매매하는 가게 주인을 빼낼 보석금을 마련한다.
Agustín
Max [Jesús Caba] wakes up without realising that the day before the clocks went back. A chain of events take place over the course of the day as a result of him leaving the house one hour late.
Guillermo (Raúl Mérida) is a passionate young college surf casually discovering an old photographic film. In the photographs are enigmatic images and a familiar face, leading Guillermo to embark on a perilous investigation with the help of Daniela, a student from Fine Arts, and his brother, a computer expert. None of them is aware that such research can change their lives forever.
Mister
At the bench, the coach and three reserve players, including a sleepy goalkeeper. The game is about to start. Our team needs to win. The coach paces nervously and relays instructions to the players on the field... But the coach's attention to the ongoing game is repeatedly interrupted by family members, from the youngest to the oldest, who come one by one to remember him that a significant family gathering is about to take place and that his presence is needed. The coach is reluctant to leave the field on account of the importance of winning this game. What is this important gathering? Are his priorities proper?
Paco
A prisoner on a furlough to attend his mother's funeral finds out he has a little brother, a nine year old kid who follows him on a aimless journey through desolate secondary roads.
Concojo
Ramiro Forteza is a Premier League goalkeeper whom the Civil War and the rigors of the war led to make a living visiting villages and challenging locals to mark him penalty goals. One evening he arrives to a town in Asturias and meets Manuela, a young widow with a son, who survives sewing for Ursula, Andrade's wife, the Civil Guard sergeant.
Taxi Driver
A woman journalist, Zoe, knows better than to go into a story with her mind already made up. But that's exactly what she does when she heads off to Spain to write about its men and their macho take (as she sees it) on relationships. As she tries to prove her thesis, she soon realizes that she doesn't know as much about the male sex as she thought. She also finds herself involved in relationships with the wrong men.
Chufla
Juan Gutiérrez, 44, an electrician, has been unemployed for a long time. He decides to leave his family to go find work in Madrid, believing that in the big city the opportunities will be greater. Once there, he discovers that things are not as he believed. He is an electrician. He doesn't want to clean windshields at stoplights or clean cabarets at dawn. He wants to work as an electrician. Occasionally she meets Andy, a Caribbean mulatto who boasts bulletproof optimism. With his sharp wit, he manages as best he can, trying not to be found by the immigration authorities. Despite the distances, "Gallego" and "Sudaca" become friends.
Lirano
Diana, the Countess of Belflor, is an intelligent, impulsive woman in love with her secretary, Teodoro. He is engaged to Marcela, one of the countess's ladies in waiting. When the countess finds out about the engagement, driven by jealousy, she does everything possible to separate the lovers.
Cape Guard
Barbara, a journalist in the beginning of the 20th century, searches in the border between Portugal and Galicia a bandit called El Argentino. In her travel she meets two men that say that they belong to his gang.
On the way to his exile in Lisbon, Mario meets Silvia, a widow who turns out to be one of his admirers. Silvia has inherited a fortune, leading Mario to resume his career, eventually falling for him. Although Mario has relations with her, he makes it clear that will never fall in love. In Madrid, Juan Pepita and resume their relationship, and because of this the jilted Nena John Colman murders before Pepita, after being arrested. Pepita accepts a contract in Argentina, reunited with Mario. There he meets Tulio, who after starting a relationship with singer eventually ask marriage.
Police Officer
Madrid in the 40s: in an old neighborhood tavern, every first Friday of the month at nightfall Moor Hauma organizes a unique and secret card game. The Caudillo, Francisco Franco, meets with several friends of Africa's campaign for a game.
Ana, a former member of the Basque terrorist group ETA who lives in a small village near the Portuguese border working as a veterinarian and sharing her days with her partner Darío and their daughter Amalia, meets José, an attractive man who participated in the dirty anti-terrorist war against ETA criminals who took refuge in France.
García
Waging war against all things glamorous and beautiful, crippled terrorists Acción Mutante plot a series of attacks on society's elite, and attempt the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite at her elaborate wedding reception.
Camarero
Lina and Mariana run from an orphanage in Porto towards the south, in search of Lina's father. It is in a difficult and chauvinistic world that they end up finding Alberto who lives with Júlia on a hill somewhere in the Alentejo. Without informing that Maria is their daughter, they try little by little to know why she abandoned her. When they know the reasons, they both plan revenge ... and execute it.
Alcober
After a robbery at a bingo hall, the girlfriend of one of the robbers escaped with the help of another woman tries to recover the loot from the raid. The problem is that some cops also want to do with the loot, to finance political assassinations.
Telegraph Operator
This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.
Médico
1938년 스페인 시민 전쟁 시절, 유랑 공연을 하던 카르멜라와 파울리노는 여행 중 방향 감각을 잃어 프랑코의 국민군 지역으로 길을 잘못들어 포로가 되고 만다. 학교라 불리우는 세뇌교육을 시키는 수용소에 끌려간 카르멜라는 특유의 낙천적이 성격으로 공화파를 지원하는 폴란드군과 친분을 나눈다. 한편, 공화파 및 국제여단 소속의 폴란드군에 대한 처형이 시작되고, 카르멜라 일행은 뜻하지 않게 일대 개혁을 기념하는 공연을 제의받고 살아남는다. 그러나 살아남기 위해 어쩔 수 없는 공연을 해야만 하는 카르멜라는 공연이 시작되자 왜곡된 대본에 의하지 않고 양심과 정의의 편에서 조국의 자유를 부르짓고 만다. 결국 그녀의 외침이 포로들의 동요를 일으키게 되자, 객석 한 모퉁이에서 그녀를 향한 한 방의 총성이 불을 뿜는다.
Barbero (as Felipe Vélez)