Cuidado con el Perro

A film essay about the city and the passage of time, its transformations and contradictions. It is a tribute to Madrid as a great visual and sound archive of its inhabitants and locations where commerce and fauna, architecture and ladies, haberdasheries and poets, builders and destroyers of the city intersect.

A couple from Burgos, Alfredo and Teresa, travel to New York where they intend to “switch off” and do all of the things listed in the guidebook. But the moment they land, they start to notice signs, some subtle and others rather less so, that in fact they’re not in the city sold to them by the travel agency. So where are they?

In a small town haunted by the struggles of life and death, ghosts and humans alike embark on a desperate journey to end their torment, resorting to extreme measures to achieve their goals.

Madrid, Spain, March 2020. As the merciless disease that plagues the world spreads through the increasingly deserted streets of the city, people barricades themselves in their homes and move on with their lives…