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Two men meet secretly each week in an Italian flat to struggle with their feelings for each other and to wrestle.
What relationship does a Spanish chess player have with the most famous world champion in chess history, the dictatorship of General Franco and the silent strike of Asturian miners with racial repression in the USA and Malcolm X, the missile crisis of Cuba and a chess game played in Stockholm in 1962. Perhaps all these historical events have nothing to do, or perhaps everything has a strange connection.
In 1588, a castaway from the Spanish Armada, sent from Portugal by Philip II of Spain to conquer England, is captured on an Irish beach. There he is tried, declared guilty and hanged to death. All of this would be reasonable according to the laws of war and hatred among humans. The problem is the prisoner is a monkey.
Ivan has worked has a butcher all his life. His dream is to have a furniture shop, but he isn't sure he is brave enough to change now. The Butcher's is an old family tradition and has been passed from generation to generation, and it weighs on Ivan like destiny itself. He has a daily routine: a machine-like customer service, yet, on his free time, he starts to draw furniture involuntarily. As time goes by he wants to make more and more sketches but keeps getting interrupted by his costumers. The more he urges to draw, the more often he gets interrupted. The more he gets interrupted, the more frustrated he becomes. Ivan starts to project his displeasure on his customers until the day he decides to solve the matter.
During the legendary chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky, controversy rears its head...
