A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?
The strong friendship between three friends is to be tested at the moment they learn that an old childhood companion has died and has left them his entire estate. To get it they must participate in a pre-planned wager devised by the deceased. This results in a mad spiral of competitiveness that will make the lives of the protagonists transformed forever.
История любви и разочарования, надежды и безысходности. Что стало бы с Ромео и Джульеттой после свадьбы? Юность проходит, а вместе с ней - великие иллюзии и мечты. Хуан так и не стал богатым, а Марита не сделалась гениальной актрисой, суперзвездой. Супруги расстаются, чтобы скинуть путы и достичь своей цели поодиночке. Возможно, потом они пожалеют, что потеряли самое главное, чем обладали - любовь.
The film explains the vicissitudes of a group of revue stars who arrive into a small provincial village in the dark Spain of the sixties, called Puente San Gil. There the women are received with aggressiveness and contempt by the ultraconservative bourgeoisie, to the point of becoming denounced and imprisoned because of the scandal caused by the sensual content of their variety show. But they refuse to remain silent and sing their protest as a song. —jsanchez
