Álex and Virginia, a couple planning to get married, buy an apartment located in a building under construction. When there are only a few months left before the apartments are to be delivered, the works are stopped indefinitely. Álex wants a solution and will do anything to get his apartment and have the life he had dreamed of.
Acting
Fernando Tejero's sweaty desperation is uncomfortably perfect
Writing
Dialogue that captures Spanish working-class pride cracking
Director
Max Lemcke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Spain's real estate collapse, when 700,000 unfinished homes littered the country like concrete tombstones.
Director Lemcke insisted on filming in an actual stalled construction site in Madrid's suburbs—the same one that inspired the screenplay.
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