Tragedy and passion are the twin threads that more "El pez que fuma", an enormous brothel on the outskirts of Caracas. The throne of this kingdom of prostitution is occupied by "La Garza", who lives under the protection of Dimas, pimp and professional criminal. Dimas has followed Tobías in his job as a favorite, the latter in prison now due to information provided by the former. The change has been good for business and Dimas acquire a firmer grip on power until the arrival one day of a fairly young boy with an air of the naive outcast about him. The boy's name is Jairo. His arrival will shake up the dark world of "El pez que fuma".
A journalist, Lucas, return to Bilbao after an absence of 15 years. He is a man with a dense past, who tries to begin a new life in the Vizcayan capital with its difficult athmosphere. He meets a woman, Olatz, with whom he begins a relationship where their differences of age and social environment come to create an intense mutual dependence. But a series of dramatic events threaten their relationship to the point of rupture.
This film, of animated drawings, portrays diverse tales and legends of the Basque Country. although independent on from the other, the narratives follow a common thread that unites them in a whole. Each story is differenly drown. Among the stories there appear the well-know titles Kukubiltzo, Tartalo and Galtzagorri.
Pedro Zamora, an ex-guerrila-figther, returns to Caracas after ten years of absence, deliberately taking up lodging in the boarding house Hecce Homo (sic). His goal is to seek revenge against Diego Sánchez, former chief of the political police who murdered, with the help of his agents, several of Zamora's fellow figthers. Diego Sánchez is now the owner of the boarding house. The clandestine organisation no longer exists. Zamora's revenge is, after so long, of no political consequence. Yet nothing can dissuade him from his idea, neither Angela's love not the affection of the eccentric individuals who live in the boarding house. A final meeting between the two men seems inevitable.
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