Malasaña neighborhood, Madrid, Spain, 1976. While political turmoil ravages the streets all over the country, the Olmedo family arrives in the big city and settles into their new apartment. They soon discover that they are not the only ones roaming its corridors.

Lola, an employment agency branch director receives a strange call in the late of the night. It is his boss. Unfair dismissals are quickly increasing in her sector. This means huge expenditures increase for the company. The situation must be stopped or her branch will have to be closed.