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
No final da Guerra Civil Espanhola, os membros de um grupo de artistas de vaudeville foram despojados de tudo: tudo o que lhes resta é a fome e o instinto de sobrevivência. Dia após dia, agonizantemente, perdidos e indefesos entre os vencedores e os vencidos, o músico Jorge, o ventríloquo Enrique, o cupletista Rocío e o órfão Miguel procuram incansavelmente algo para comer e um lugar seguro para viver.
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
O diretor espanhol volta novamente seu olhar para a guerra civil espanhola, aqui nos anos 40, e retrata toda a imbecilidade da perseguição política dos adeptos do general Franco aos republicanos. Salvador, estudante de seminário, depois de ir para a guerra é mandado pelo padre superior a um colégio para dar aulas e esfriar a cabeça. Logo conhece Elena, mãe de um aluno, e por ela se interessa. Elena tem vida extremamente difícil por causa das perseguições e a obsessão de Salvador por ela pode destruir sua família.
Simón
Laura passou os anos mais felizes da sua infância num orfanato. Agora, trinta anos depois, ela comprou o velho prédio e mudou-se com o seu marido, Carlos, e o seu filho Simon, a fim de instalar ali um lar-abrigo para crianças deficientes. Mas a nova casa desperta a imaginação de Simon e o rapaz começa a contar um emaranhado de histórias fantásticas e de jogos pouco inocentes que começa a perturbar Laura.
