In the style of Short Cuts, Jose Corbacho and Juan Cruz unfold the intertwining stories of several Barcelona characters. Lolo is a bar owner whose wife leaves him. He hires a new chef - Mao, an immigrant from China who is in Spain for love. Raquel, an aging divorcee, has an internet romance with a man her age while simultaneously bedding the son of her best friend, a serious teenager who works at the local supermarket. Conchi, an elderly housebound woman, supplements her income by dealing prescription drugs to young people while her ailing husband Mariano lovingly cares for the plants on the porch.