Carlos Garrido

Ion is a seemingly normal guy whose life goes by without a hitch. A phone call; a meeting with a friend; small, unimportant everyday situations. One day he gets into a car with two other people. They cross the border between Spain and France. The next morning, their lives will change forever.

Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.

Uma popular deputada europeia, Giannina Ricci (Yvonne Sciò), chega para visitar a Espanha. Seu objetivo, através de um relatório detalhado que revela as ilegalidades e irregularidades da multinacional Petronas, é o encerramento das fábricas da empresa, que colocam em perigo o meio ambiente. O mais alto funcionário da empresa decide subornar os comandos das forças de segurança responsáveis pela proteção da deputada Ricci, facilitando um atentado contra ela. Sendo assim, eles não pensam em algo melhor para confiar a proteção da deputada do que José Luis Torrente (Santiago Segura). Além disso, permite-lhe selecionar e treinar, aqueles que formam a elite de segurança para ajudar na proteção.

In Madrid seven candidates report for a job interview that uses "the Grönholm method" of selection, as protestors rise up in public protest in the street over the IMF-World Bank Summit attempting globalisation of workers' unions.

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an apparently irrelevant act that, however, will be paramount to understand the Spain of 20th century; an animal from far lands that will become a symbol of the Second Spanish Republic, the communist movement and many other things; a royal hunting that marks the beginning of a bizarre story of jealousy, passion, political intrigues and taxidermy.

Marina, a woman with a glass eye, has the bad luck to be the victim of an assault witnessed by Rafael, a goodhearted butcher, who rescues her from her attacker, a man named Daniel. Rafael has physical problems of his own, but the two stay together as a couple. A baby not Rafael's, for he lost his testicles in an accident is born. Rafael looks forward to raising the child as his own if Marina will consent.

Palência, Espanha, final dos anos 1990. Enquanto Gema e Toribio, que vivem em sua própria nuvem de felicidade precária, sempre sorriem estupidamente como se tivessem que se desculpar por algo que não fizeram, seu filhinho Martín sofre, todos os dias na escola, uma prova insuportável, trágica, mas também cômico, que eles, um par de simplórios sonhadores, desconhecem.

Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya

Ana works in an office where the things are going very badly. One night after having dinner with nasty rich people, she has a discussion with her husband. He dissapears and then the life of Ana changes: she has incredible luck in gambling.

An air-hostess is pregnant but she does not know the name of the father, a foreigner. When the baby is born, she gives it to her sister that has already two children. The child grows up as another member of the family. Although the adults keep the secret, the children know that he is different.