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.
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
Безжалостный вор Исмаэл хладнокровно убивает женщину во время ограбления ее дома, а потом стреляет из дробовика в ее маленькую дочь. Действие переносится на несколько лет вперед. Девочка осталась жива и выросла в красавицу, вся ее жизнь прошла в психиатрической больнице - умственно она так и осталась ребенком, страшно боящимся крови. Исмаэл случайно видит ее и, опасаясь, что она узнала его и донесет в полицию, похищает, но не убивает, а приводит домой, в старый особняк, где живет со своей любовницей и подельницей Мэйте. Та ревниво относится к девушке, и подозрения оказываются не беспочвенными...
Writer in need of money returns to his hometown to try to write a new book. But his addiction to alcohol causes strange dreams that take him 50 years back to a Mardi Gras tuesday, when he was a teenager.
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to say that the Virgin appears and the two friends take advantage of the situation. Soon a network of economic interests and credulity is created that makes it easier for Manuel and Clemente to achieve their goal: a monumental basilica, a religious order of nuns, priests and bishops of their own, and even a pope, Gregory XVII. Satire on the curious origin of the Palmarian Catholic Church and its unique founders.
