First Assistant Director
Juan Sahagún, since childhood, feels passion for his mother. One day in the street he sees a woman identical to her. He follows her and finds out that she works as an actress in a theater company, so Juan decides to hire the whole company to represent the people who have influenced him in his past. They recreate the same situations of yesteryear and Juan acts as the child he was, to relive the memories already forgotten.
Assistant Director
A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins to receive threatening letters.
First Assistant Director
Elisa has not seen her father Luis for nine years, but she receives a telegram from her sister Isabel in a moment of crisis of her marriage with Antonio telling that her father is ill and she decides to travel to the countryside of Madrid with Isabel and her brother-in-law Julián and their two children to visit Luis for his birthday. Elisa decides to stay with his father when her sister returns to Madrid with her family and she gets closer to Luis, understanding why he left her mother years ago. Later she tells him that Antonio cheated her with her best friend Sophie and their relationship has ended. When Antonio unexpectedly arrives in the house, Elisa takes a decision about her life.
Assistant Director
This film is a documentary about the poet Leopoldo Panero. His widow and his sons talk about death in general in this special case, and also about their own family problems.
Assistant Director
Angel is a poacher who lives in the forest with his domineering mother. One day he goes to the city and meets Milagros, an escapee from a reform school and the lover of a known criminal so he takes her to his house in the mountains.
Screenplay
1940년, 스페인 카스티야의 작은 마을, 다섯살 소녀 아나는 일곱살인 언니 이사벨과 함께 마을회관에서 상영하는 을 보러 간다. 아나는 착한 괴물인 프랑켄슈타인이 여자 아이를 죽였을까 궁금해지고 그것을 언니에게 물어본다. 언니는 "영화에 나온 건 모두 거짓말이야. 괴물은 아이를 죽이지 않았어. 괴물은 아직도 세상 어딘가에 돌아다니고 있어. 아무도 괴물을 죽일 수 없어. 난 그 괴물을 봤어."라며 거짓말을 한다. 언니의 말을 들은 아나는 괴물을 찾으러 집을 나서는데...
Assistant Director
Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.
Second Assistant Director
Teresa and Peter settle down in their new home after the wedding. Things are going well until her childhood furniture arrives, sending Teresa into horrible flashbacks of turmoil from memories of her youth.
