Hispanocine Producciones Cinematográficas S.L.

Pedro, a gay man with an active social life and big circle of friends, takes in his nephew Bernardo for a couple weeks. When it appears as though it might become a permanent arrangement, however, Pedro turns to his friends for guidance as he and 9-year-old Bernardo begin to forge a household together.

Homage to the silent films of the 1920s, with intertitles, narrating the vicissitudes of a family of Chinese peasants engaged in rice cultivation and other crafts.

Following the failed prison escape depicted in the film 'The Hole' (Le Trou by Jacques Becker, 1960), its protagonist finds himself locked in solitary confinement. An evocation of the world of crime and prison that surrounded the work and life of José Giovanni, author of the novel that inspired Becker's essential film.