In 1941, two Polish brothers escape a Soviet gulag. Their only escape route is through the impossible mountains of Afghanistan and the KGB is on their tail.
A notable opera singer tries to commit suicide because of a emotional breakdown. While hospitalized in a psychiatric clinic, her daughter cautiously approaches the man she considers to be the blame for the state of her mother in order to gain her revenge.
Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
Moises is a mature homosexual, which is having an affair by correspondence with Hilario, a recently widowed man who lives in Valencia. They decide to meet in Madrid and live together. But the chosen day is 23 February, the one in which Lieutenant Colonel Tejero attempts a coup d'etat.
An animals' collectionist is despised by his wife so that he decide to comeet suicide, but the notice about the death of his brother, a pianist who lives abroad makes him change his mind. He makes his family think that he has commited suicide and some days after announce the arrival of his brother...
Faced with rumors that strange phenomena are happening in a town, two pairs of friends go to that rural area with a tent to investigate. At night they see strange lights and record an inexplicable sound. The next day, Laura appears before them, saying she is lost.
The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.
In an Andalusian village lives a rich and austere family whose son and heir worries his mother about his dissolute lifestyle. When cousin Consolation arrives, she changes their life like a joyful genius, and things start to change.
