Janine works in a bank giving credits to clients to buy houses and receives the offer of a promotion to work in a future branch in China for which she takes Mandarin classes. One night he travels from work to his home on the subway. There is attacked by two young delinquents a very old woman and Janine tries to avoid it. The young follow her and it is then that they steal and attack her sexually. After recovering from the blows and the anguish he gets up and sees his attackers raping a helpless young girl. Janine, instead of taking some initiative to stop them, flees home. From that situation her life is disrupted and her job promotion to China, her consolidated partner and her present as an independent woman become secondary and worthless issues. Janine lives in anguish and tormented by the memory of that traumatic situation. To try to recompose himself, he travels to the countryside to see his father who is a widower and is trying to rebuild his life after the death of his wife.
Lucas
A group of Spanish boys take advantage of a high roof to ogle a sunbathing woman, but the presence of an adjacent male nude complicates matters.
Niño
It is Sunday. A beautiful dawn on a doomed day. At ten o'clock, a happy child is going to die.
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.
Miguel
At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the members of a group of vaudeville performers have been stripped of everything: all they have left is hunger and the instinct to survive. Day after day, agonizingly, lost and helpless between the victors and the vanquished, the musician Jorge, the ventriloquist Enrique, the couplet singer Rocío and the orphan Miguel search tirelessly for something to eat and a safe place to live.
A man who will pick up his son at school, watches other children take advantage of the child.
Manuel
A family seen at two different periods, some 40 years having passed between the two. A dysfunctional family marked by what used to be called an ugly illness, cancer and death. The characters quarrel, hate each other, and refuse to accept in their predecessors what they will eventually, inevitably repeat in themselves. A family marked by relations of rejection, love and hate of the other, the upstairs neighbors, those strangers from a far-off land, Andalusia in the 1960s, Morocco at present, who will also form part of this repetitive game that is life. To what point is everything a metaphor or symbol of our society? Are we really strangers to ourselves?
Lorenzo
Orense, Spain, 1940, just after the end of the Civil War. Every time Elena locks the door of her home, she and her children become the faithful guardians of a sacred secret: Ricardo, her husband, their father, hides in the house, trying to avoid the brutal political persecution of the victors, who hunt, as if they were wild animals, and imprison or execute, those who have lost the bloody and tragic struggle…
Simón
로라, 카를로스 부부와 아들 시몬은 과거 고아원이었던 대저택으로 이사를 온다. 이 고아원에서 어린시절을 보낸 로라는 병에 걸린 시몬의 건강을 돌보기 위해 외딴 바닷가에 위치한 이곳을 고집했다. 하지만 이사온지 얼마 안돼서 시몬은 이 집에 친구들이 있다며 놀러 다닌다. 더구나 친구들로부터 자신은 입양된 아이고, 곧 죽을 것이라고 들었다며 괴로워한다. 로라는 출생의 비밀을 알아버린 시몬에게 놀라워하지만, 친구들이 있다는 소리는 말도 안 되는 아이의 장난으로 여긴다. 그러던 어느 날, 시몬의 기분 전환을 위해 동네 사람들과 파티를 열게 되는데 그 파티에서 시몬은 사라지고 만다. 시간은 점점 흐르고, 모두가 시몬이 죽었다고 생각하는 가운데 로라는 시몬이 말했던 보이지 않는 친구들의 존재가 자신의 과거와 모종의 관계가 있음을 깨닫게 되는데…
