Young Serra , after a boxing match dies falling from the roof of his house. The coach of his opponent that night, and old friend of Young, hire the services of Pepe Carvalho to find the mother of the son of Young so it will not be alone .

An executive asks Carvalho to obtain photographs of his wife with her lover in order to obtain a divorce. To do so, Carvalho travels to Menorca.

Paco, the teenage son of a Civil Guard commander in Basque Country, becomes addicted to heroin.

The consortium of the people approve a proposal from the Mayor; instruct Ramon, a ruined sculptor, an equestrian statue of Franco. Luis, one of the councilors, visit Ramon and proposes the commission, Ramon rejects for ideological grounds, but after thinking it accepts as there are no marble equestrian statues. When Ramon finally finished the statue, the whole consortium believes it is past time to inaugurate a statue of Franco. To satisfy Ramon approve the making of a new statue. This is dedicated to democracy.

The relationship between a poacher and his domineering mother in rural Spain is upended when he falls for an escapee from a reform school.

Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.

While a youth group led by Daniel causes the explosion of a truck loaded with materials to build a nuclear power plant, Laura accidentally kills his mistress, Judge. Both cases will cross.

Juan, a young man from the provinces, meets a singer from a small band. Thanks to her, he discovers sex, but the experience shocks him so much that he is committed, labeled insane, to a mental asylum run by nuns.

Teodoro, a Spanish engineer working as a professor in the United States, returns to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year.

In the summer of 1977, a political prisoner, living in exile, recounts the circumstances of his escape to a journalist: in April 76, a group of ETA members planned to escape from prison, but the project fails when, due to a tip-off, the guards discover the tunnel they are digging. The inmates, far from being discouraged, start a second tunnel.