Gonzalo Herrero

One night. One city. Madrid. Five conversations. Nine characters. They tell personal stories, invented stories, also an old story that goes on from conversation to conversation, a story from an old Japanese film.

Au cœur de l'été, cinq femmes répètent une pièce de théâtre dans un vieux moulin, isolé du monde.

Álex and Cata, two young women who live on the outskirts of the city, a desolate place full of empty stores and ramshackle bars where dreams end up fading, have been preparing their escape all their lives.

Aitana organizes a big Halloween party in her huge apartment in Madrid in the hope that her friend Cleo will come.

It's the first week of holidays and everyone has gone to Mallorca on a school trip. Except Guti and Saúl, which are grounded and bored stiff in Madrid. They are not throwing out their holidays, tho, given that their end-of-school trip is going to be breaking in the high school and ravage it from top to the bottom. And let the Mallorca guys die of envy. And for once be the kings of the school.

An 2000. Maya, une jeune Londonienne, se rend dans le petit village de sa petite amie espagnole, Ruth, qui vient de mourir dans un accident. Elle veut lui dire adieu, mais au choc et à l'angoisse de se présenter comme la "petite amie étrangère", face à famille et amis qu'elle ne connaît pas et qui parlent une autre langue, s'ajoute la perplexité de découvrir que personne ne sait qui elle est.