Gema Santoyo

Quartier de Malasaña, Madrid, Espagne, 1976. Alors que l'agitation politique ravage les rues de tout le pays, la famille Olmedo arrive dans la grande ville et s'installe dans son nouvel appartement. Ils découvrent bientôt qu'ils ne sont pas les seuls à arpenter ses couloirs.

Lola, an employment agency branch director receives a strange call in the late of the night. It is his boss. Unfair dismissals are quickly increasing in her sector. This means huge expenditures increase for the company. The situation must be stopped or her branch will have to be closed.

Recounts the experiences of a middle-class family, the Alcántaras, during the last years of the rule of Francisco Franco and the beginning of the Spanish Transition to democracy.