Rafa and Jeromo are a curious couple of friends. Their friendship began in childhood as well as his love for Silvia, which have been in love since childhood. Silvia Jeromo elected, and Rafa decided to disappear. Years later he returns and finds that the couple is experiencing a serious emotional crisis...
Acting
Sacristán's smoldering resentment steals every scene.
Production
Madrid's outskirts never looked so pathetically poetic.
Director
Ángel Llorente
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures 1980s Spain's transition from dictatorship: small-town gossip as entertainment, repression wearing comedy's clothes.
Based on Eduardo Mendicutti's novel; the book's darker ending was softened because even Spanish audiences needed hope in '84.
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