Rodaje

In the city fear and threat reign. A young filmmaker is about to shoot his first film in Madrid in which Berlanga films El verdugo, while in the real world Grimau has been sentenced to death. In the short space of six days and nights, events are linked: the love and heartbreak of the protagonist Pelayo Pelayo with his girlfriend Laura, the discussions with the famous producer Midas Merlin, the meetings with the journalist who tells him the news for saving the life of the condemned man, the visits to the set where Berlanga is filming, the walks with the scandalous actor Juan Luis Mañara, the descent into hell in a movie theater with continuous sessions, humor and anxiety ... History happens in a rogue metropolis heiress of Bohemia and that is already beginning to be developmental. All this while the young filmmaker obsessively tries to finish his script for the imminent start of shooting the film. Gutiérrez Aragón's novel describes an absolutely real world that nevertheless seems to have come out of a mystery film.