Synopsis

At the Ezequiel boarding house live a group of outcasts: Delfin, an old “zarzuela” singer, obsessed with eliminating any trace of pilosity on his body – which he considers as the obvious sign of an obscure sexuality he attempts to repress; Khouma, a Mauritanian street hawker selling artifacts from his home country and white powder dreams; Fabiola and Gervasio, a couple tired of making love “in vivo” in an unhealthy place; Virginia, a single notions store employee, who keeps receiving letters she never opens for fear of being faced with the fleeting years and with bad news; Monica, the boarding house’s all-time employee, a piqued and ambitious woman… Old Ezequiel watches over them all, constantly controlling the schedules and behaviors of his pensioners. When he unexpectedly dies, anarchy takes a firm hold of this microcosm…