新任狱警胡安(Alberto Ammann 饰)为展示良好职业风貌,提前一天入狱体验工作。而在这一天里,犯人头目“恶母”击伤狱警,带领犯人暴动,监狱陷入了一片混乱……胡安因受伤被同伴丢弃在211囚室,为了避免被犯人们当做人质,他只得乔装罪犯,谋取恶母的信任,试图寻找脱身机会。犯人们以监狱中的三名刑期百年以上的“埃塔”恐怖分子要挟官方答应他们的谈判条件,因政府与埃塔方面有协议在先,监狱方与特别行动组投鼠忌器,迟迟不能强攻,致使局势僵持。另一方面,监狱暴动经媒体报道后引起连锁反应,家属们纷纷来到监狱探听消息,却遭到狱警们的毒打,胡安怀有身孕的妻子不幸受伤,而这让本欲确保自己脱身并协助狱方平息事端的胡安做出了疯狂的举动……
本片横扫2009年西班牙戈雅奖最佳电影、导演、男主角等八个主要奖项。
在蕾贝嘉(维多利亚·阿布里尔 Victoria Abril饰)的童年时期,作为当红歌手的母亲(玛丽莎·佩雷德斯 Marisa Paredes饰)就为了事业而远走他乡,抛下女儿独自长大。蕾贝嘉一直想挽留母亲在身边,不惜间接害死继父,这一切都是枉然。
母亲的光彩太耀眼,蕾贝嘉尽其一生去模仿追赶,想要成为母亲那样的人;同时,母亲的无情和永远无法超越的高度,却令蕾贝嘉对她充满妒和恨。她当上了新闻主播,嫁给了母亲的旧情人,力图让自己变得强大。但是母亲回来后,和蕾贝嘉的丈夫爱火重生,这让蕾贝嘉非常生气。她一怒之下把丈夫杀死,并坦诚了自己的罪行。
蕾贝嘉入狱后,母亲反省自己和女儿的关系为何变成这样。她要赎罪,要把正当盛年的女儿从监狱里救出来,让蕾贝嘉继续寻找幸福的归宿。
胡安(阿尔贝托·克洛萨斯 Alberto Closas 饰)和玛利亚(露西娅·波塞 Lucia Bosé 饰)曾是感情十分要好的恋人,如今,胡安成为了一名大学教授,而玛利亚则嫁给了富商为妻。意外的重逢将两人之间的爱火重新点燃,在一起幽会的途中,玛利亚不小心撞到了一个骑自行车的人,害怕恋情曝光的她选择了逃避和沉默,最终导致了被撞的伤者不幸身亡。
富商的好友拉法(Carlos Casaravilla 饰)得知了胡安的玛利亚之间的一切,遂即对玛利亚进行了敲诈,与此同时,胡安的内心里也承受着巨大的愧疚与煎熬。在一连串的矛盾和麻烦之中,胡安决定同玛利亚一起去警局自首,但贪恋浮华生活的玛利亚却犹豫了。
母亲去世,父亲失踪,虔诚的教徒罗茜(玛卡蕾娜·戈麦斯 Macarena Gómez 饰)和妹妹妮娜(纳迪娅·圣地亚哥 Nadia de Santiago 饰)过着相依为命的生活。罗茜患有广场恐惧症和严重的精神衰弱症,无法踏出家门一步,只能依靠吗啡来缓解身体和精神的极度不适。而出落的亭亭玉立的妮娜开始让罗茜渐渐感到一种妹妹会弃自己而去的恐慌。
某日,一位腿部受了伤的陌生男子卡洛斯(雨果·席尔瓦 Hugo Silva 饰)敲响了罗茜家的门,半推半就之下,罗茜接纳了卡洛斯,让卡洛斯在床上养伤,日日精心照料着他,随着时间的推移,风度翩翩的卡洛斯让罗茜第一次感到了爱情的甜蜜和温暖。为了能够留住卡洛斯在自己的身边,罗茜开始撒下一个又一个谎言,当事态的发展超出了罗茜的控制之时,她展现出了执着而又疯狂的一面。
On leaving work, while Darío Manzano is taking drugs in the car, he receives an unexpected visit from Ginés Chega. At the same time that he points a gun at Darío´s face, he asks about his friend Abraham "El Gitano", whom he accuses of having stolen a lot of money.
Manzano, without knowing what happened, cannot answer anything about it, and Ginés angrily gives Darío a head butt on the nose while threatening him and leaves.
Darío with a broken nose, starts looking for his friend. When he finally finds him, very angry, he reproaches Abraham for stealing from Los Chega, very dangerous people. Trying to find a solution, Darío decides to take Abraham to France so that they will not find him.
That night, during the car journey, Darío suffers a stroke that will cause him to lose control, leaving the road and causing the death of Abraham.
After a few months, the advances in Darío's rehabilitation begin to show results. But everything begins to go wrong due to the accumulation of different events that will put Darío and his family in trouble: defaults with the bank, tensions between them and the imminent sentence of the trial for the accident. To this is added, the pressure from Los Chega to Darío to recover his lost money, since the night of the robbery, Abraham was in the car with Manzano when he suffered the accident.
As a consequence of this, Manzano will live a few hours prior to his entry into prison frantic and full of danger, where he will try to defend, TO THE TEETH OF A DOG, his family.