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Carmen is a gypsy teenager, destined to live a life that is repeated every generation: getting married and raising as many children as possible. But one day she meets Lola, an uncommon gypsy who dreams about going to university, does graffiti and is very different. Carmen quickly develops a complicity with Lola and discovers a world that, inevitably, leads them to be rejected by their families.

Young Eva makes her decision to stay in Madrid for the month of August an act of faith. She needs to feel things differently and think of summer as a time of opportunity. On days of festivities and verbenas, while events and encounters take place, Eva will discover that she still has time, that an opportunity can still be given.

A boy and a girl who have just met transport a corpse on request to the north of Mexico. When the police discover them at a routine check, they are forced to flee. Forced to team up, they will abandon their secrecy and mistrust while trying to assert his only heritage: a dead man who they only know is worth money if they manage to take him to his destination.

When 10-year-old Nemo's mother suddenly dies, the boy is forced to go live with his maternal uncle's family. They are cordial and treat him well, but his 12-year-old cousin, Iván, begins to tease and tell him stories about the Bogeyman and how he'll come and get him if he doesn't behave. At first young Nemo doesn't believe the stories, insisting that Iván is just making things up...

Musa goes to the Registry Office to verify his identity, but discovers that there is no trace of him in the system: he does not exist. This raises suspicions among the officials and they convince Musa to plunge into a Kafkaesque process where he will have to go to a judge.

Teo, a little eight-year old girl, wishes to go to the moon during his birthday. 20 years later, Teo, like most of us, has not accomplished many of the things she would have liked by now. However, "There are many ways to reach the moon".

David is a guy with a job, some friends and fairly successful with women. He cannot complain, but he feels completely empty. Then, Elena enters his life and he idealizes her at once. David thinks he has found what he has been looking for. He thinks he is in love, he wants it very badly. This time, it seems everything is going to be fine. Or is it?

Two brothers with opposite personalities will have to live with a fearsome gangrenous disease which spreads through the village where they have lived since their childhood. Everything changes when one of them begins to think that, perhaps, fleeing from the village is an effective way rather than his own survival.

Silvestre Andazola, an actor whose glory seems to have passed, enters his dressing room after another disappointing performance of "King Lear" at the theatre. Someone else appears to be with him in the room.

Laura meets Carlos at a party. They dance, drink and have fun on a night that will be hard to forget.

A glimpse into the day of a son visiting his sick father. The film follows the son as he helps his father with his daily routines, while trying to create a connection with the distant figure.

A grieving woman sleeps. Between her agitated breathing, the footsteps of a strange man creep in. At dawn, he accompanies her for a last walk in the forest. The protagonist, a woman without a name, will say goodbye to life in a quiet walk close to nature.

Two Spanish provincial prostitutes fantasise about their future life in the capital, Madrid.

It's a journey in a dead place, the need of finding a home. Get trough the grief to understand it.

Lucas comes home for Easter. As every year, the celebration takes place around the throne of the Magdalena, patron saint of the town, where both blessed and atheists coexist with tradition. Every season a young woman is in charge of dressing the figure, this year's is a complete stranger to him. The girl and the image have a particular relationship, a strange interest grows in Lucas.

On the periphery, the city's waste accumulates to form illegal dumps. In these, a new kind of life has emerged. It hides from the lights of humans, but the city reclaims what is its own. It advances and changes everything in its path. In its flight, the shadows remain in time. The thresholds persist. Gentrification, the death of one city and the rebirth of another.

A conversation about the work of Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) and his perdurance in contemporary Spanish cinema.