Valencia, Spain, in the early 1950s. Salvador and María, two unfortunate people, meet by chance when she takes shelter from the rain at the Oriente Cinema, where he works as a manager.
May 1, 1929. A decomposing headless body is found inside an abandoned wooden box in Madrid's Atocha train station. The victim is later identified as a Barcelona businessman that vanished six months before.
4,000 tons of oil have been stolen from a Galician deposit. The alleged thieves are defended by the lawyer Ramos, but the witnesses die and suspicions point to Franco's brother.
In Madrid, a Lawyer gets the freedom for "El Chirlo" a usual 20 years old crook. Chirlo wants to thank Jaime, his lawyer, the defense and treat him for a meal with Rocio, Jaime's girlfriend. Jaime leave so Chirlo and Rocio go together to take a walk. Since then, everything turns bad.
Iván and Ginebra meet in a purely casual way and soon discover that there is a powerful attraction between them; but the constant presence of Ivan's roommate, Toby, a strange boxer who is afraid to step into the ring, forces them to redefine their relationship.
Elena, a shy and unmarried girl, belonging to the upper middle class and somewhat marginalized from the general environment, embarks on a trip to the family farmhouse one morning, and when she returns to the city that same day, at night, she is forced to take a strange woman in her car.
Since her earliest childhood, Blancanieves has lived with seven men who have cared for and protected her, but this has never been enough for her, because she wants to be a movie star, a dream that disturbs her guardians.
