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Luis Miguel, a 30-35 year old man, unemployed, lonely and with a boring life. He realizes that his Wednesdays are disappearing, or worse, someone is stealing them, and oddly enough there is an association behind all this trafficking in his days. After discovering it, Luis Miguel turns his sad life upside down and begins to fight against the association.

Focused on the experiences of Manuel "Manolo" Díaz Caballero, who was a local police officer in Malaga for more than 30 years, his memories of those years are the subject of this documentary.

Spain. 1978. Year of the first democratic elections following the dictatorship, and of the birth cine quinqui (delinquent movies): films that rapidly became a big commercial success, showing things that were banned by the censorship not too long before.

Emilio Pascual, a historical figure of Andalusian cinema from the early 1900s, appears in today's Malaga with the mission of bringing the first documentary filmed in Andalusia to its first screening.

After a wild sex session in a brothel on his 40th birthday, Luis, bitter and haughty, tries unsuccessfully to escape from the blood stain that, without explanation, grows on the sheet over the bulge formed by his lover. Desperation and what he finds under the sheet means that the only option is to jump out the window of the room already full of blood. The blow plunges him into a strange dream in which a particular fairy godmother reminds him of the child that she still carries inside and the need to take care of him. Convinced of the teaching, by blowing out the candles on his birthday cake, Luis wishes to become that child. Beneath the sheets, drenched in blood, he discovers the error of his desire.

Rafael was the outlandish mayor of a small Andalusian village until his absent-minded eccentricities caused him to draw in the village elections. Now he has a clear objective: to win in the second elections. His best idea is to organise and star in a documentary to brag about 'his people'. Through these cameras we will get to know one of the crazy traditions of the village. But also, the criticism and laughter that his dubious management arouses, and the irrefutable prudence of Victoria, his competitor. All these problems will explode back at him... literally.

Dani has always felt that he is different from boys his age and that, for some reason, he had to keep it a secret. Now, at 16, he begins to understand the feelings that run through him, and with them come new fears that torment him. With the arrival of Lucas from the city, he finally finds a mirror in which to look at himself and thus gather the necessary strength to accept what he is: a gay boy in rural Spain in 1990.

Marta has found a dress that is not hers in her boyfriend Fer's room, all the trust she has placed in him over years of relationship is shaken.

Isa has been in a relationship with Vera for months. Although neither has any doubts, their relationship has developed like that of two girls playing hide-and-seek. By fleeing from their reality, they have made fantasy their refuge and consolation. Hidden in a closet where she feels freer than she does in her own world, Isa will have to choose: Break the silence or live as a Martyr?

Casandra, a young woman with schizophrenia, moves into her deceased grandfather's apartment. There, her symptoms reappear stronger than ever. But is it her illness or is there something more? This country hides painful secrets... and she's locked up with one of them.

Candela is a 70-year-old woman with advanced senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Gloria, her wife, struggles to keep the parts of memory that time has not yet extinguished, each time with less fortune and more wear and tear. Both Gloria and Candela are increasingly lost in that disease that drags them to the two and separates them. Gloria understands that even if she is capable of recovering pieces of the past shared with Candela, it will never be the same; although they can live moments similar to those of their youth.

During one of her regular trips to the lake, Irene meets Nereia, the mysterious daughter of the engineer who rebuilt the dam. For some strange reason, her father keeps her isolated in the residence he built on the banks of the lake, so she has never been able to interact with other people. In an attempt to give her back the youth she has been denied, Irene invites Nereia to join her group of friends. It will be then when they discover that playing with the unknown can have a very high price.

Maca and Carmen, two lifelong friends, spend their last day together in the town where they lived their childhood before moving to different countries for work reasons. Spending that last day, we take a walk through her memories walking through the streets of her town, her dreams and her disappointments.