Santiago, Marta and Carlos meet once a month to eat together, always in the same restaurant. They have known each other since university, more than 15 years ago. Then they shared many dreams and illusions, but over the years each has followed his own path. In one of those meals, Carlos borrows four million pesetas from Santiago and another four from Marta because his computer company has problems with a project they are developing. Months go by and Carlos can't get their money back. Santiago and Marta assure him that it does not matter, but in reality their lives have changed since that meal.
Acting
Joel Joan and Marta Belaustegui's passive-aggressive chemistry.
Direction
Herrero traps you in that restaurant like emotional claustrophobia.
Director
Gerardo Herrero
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Spain's transition to the euro, the peseta amounts carry specific generational weight—this is pre-crisis money anxiety.
Lola Dueñas appears briefly as Ainhoa; she'd explode internationally with Pedro Almodóvar's 'Volver' six years later.
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