A runaway girl crashes into a bourgeois family's implosion—one night, two teens, zero adults prepared.
A seventeen year old boy, the only son of a family of upper middle class, there is a night with a friend of his age. She has run away from home and he wants to stay and live with them, for in their home just burst a major family conflict. As in his ...
Acting
Alfredo Landa's simmering patriarch, barely containing rage.
Direction
Mercero traps you in that apartment like family itself.
Writing
Dialogue that never says what it means—devastating.
Director
Antonio Mercero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Spain's post-Franco 'Transition,' the film dissects the hollow prosperity of the new middle class—freedom without emotional literacy.
Antonio Mercero was primarily known for TV comedy; this was his darkest turn, and Landa—Spain's beloved everyman—shocked audiences by playing genuinely monstrous.
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